She carried a vest-pocket copy of the New Testament in her purse at all times.

… bishops and servants of God — the senatores natu majores, the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.

The theory suggests, but does not state explicitly, that the prohibition of consecutives is the stricter the nearer the interval in question lies to the fundamental component of a blend.

She lays my body out between the charred blunt stubble and the sun, seals my eyes shut with her tongue; then fetches dressfuls of freshly scythed grass to pour over me, all the while singing those tone-deaf songs she knows.