Alectoromancy, or alectryomancy, is divination by a cock; it is a famous and very ancient method. -- Picture Museum of Sorcery, Lock tr. de Givry, 1931

For there it lies so tranquil, so beloved, / All that it hath of Life with us is living; / So gentle, stirless, helpless, and unmoved, / And all unconscious of the joy 't is giving ….

It is not sex, lies and videotape but the drama of CAD, cost and cycle time that is generating a revolution in the business of design.

Mrs. Meyrick’s house was not noisy: the front parlor looked on the river, and the back on gardens, so that though she was reading aloud to her daughters, the window could be left open to freshen the air of the small double room where a lamp and two candles were burning.