Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.

Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse.

Algebraic K-theory has two components: the classical theory which centers around the Grothendieck group K_0 of a category and uses explicit algebraic presentations and higher algebraic K-theory which requires topological or homological machinery to define.

I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. … six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.