They looked at the court where he had disappeared, then at one another, and at last burst out into one expression of disgust. There's a scurf! said one; He's a regular scab, cried another; and a coster declared that he was a trosseno, and no mistake.

If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write 'I ate my house', because you cannot eat a house.

The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. … Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.

The endorsement by the three Democrats is a victory for Senator John L. Sampson of Brooklyn, the minority leader, who spent months coaxing a consensus out of his often-fractious conference. / “We are at the door of marriage equality,” Mr. Sampson said.