Several of my soothmoother informants pointed out that the Shetlands were not the only islands to have been visited by the Vikings.

Examples of Romance Wellerisms are rather infrequent in literature and must be gathered from oral tradition.

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,[…].

What...? EW. You scored with the fence-sitter?