It was a racking experience, and he did not repeat it. The muscular cramps which are characteristic of the complaint were tying the sufferer into knots, and he was biting his lips to shut down the screams which might have relieved his agony at the expense of his manhood.

The three younger brothers had from childhood upwards always ridden such thunderingly good flesh, and drunk such thunderingly good claret, that they imagined themselves great swells accordingly […]

Wo be in those dayes to them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke.

Modern communication methods have already produced a whole body of 'screenlore' or 'computerlore' and 'Netlore'.