[H]e had been condemned already to many uncomfortable lurking-places, and more disagreeable disguises, as well as to long and difficult journeys, during which, between pragmatical officers of justice belonging to the prevailing party, and parties of soldiers whose officers usually took on them to act upon their own warrant, risk of discovery had more than once become very imminent.

An extrasystole originating at the rhythmic centre is thus followed by a returning cycle of natural length.

It should be noticed however that he too distinctly says that Joseph was of the tribe of Judah (Dial. 78) and that his family came from Bethlehem, which looks very much like an unobliterated trace of the same inconsistency.

It features in textbooks as well, a prime example of a living fossil, a reminder of past glories now hanging on in a last-ditch action against final extinction. But is nautilus really an anachronism?