Whether, before the name of shire was introduced into Mercia, the several mægths or regions bore any common designation, such as that of gau, must remain in entire obscurity.

The description of the preparation of the children for the play's pedophagic banquet recalls the Messenger's description in Seneca's Thyestes, […]

Despite the failure of attempts to form a separate state, the idea of North Queensland as a distinctive region has existed powerfully almost from first settlement.

[…] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;