What is porcelain? A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery.

That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

Seriously, the only problem with television is the intelligence of most of the people that watch it. With a brain, television is one of the best things in life.

Nonsense! Plebs don't have brains, Plebvision is designed for plebs, ergo if you have a brain you are not meant to watch it.

The agitation thus begun by Hooper, which received in1551 the 'support of Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer, foreign divines who had become Regius professors of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge, finally enlisted the sympathy of the young king, who probably gave the weight of his personal authority to a revision the history of whose making is not recorded.