a whimpery noise

Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts.

I copied them out of an American Automobile Association report because I'm on the spot for a talk at the Kiwanis Club luncheon next week, and I've found that whenever you've got to stand up on your hind legs and expose your ignorance the best thing you can do is put down a nice thick smoke screen of figures between you and your audience.

The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.