The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.

You mean that fartful old turd has money to buy Chinese horses, but is too cheap and dumb to buy any thing from me?

There isn't any good source of water close by.

Two years later it was found that a Shenfield butcher, apparently unlicensed, 'doth daily hospitate and succour vagabonds and idle persons and suffer them to play at cards in his house'.