[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]

On the BBC news today, a Rightpondian used the term transportation services.

I do not mean osseous sarcoma, but the ordinary sarcomatic condition found in an abnormal growth of the tissues.

In Sophoclean words, an Antigonian moment is manipulated to climb to power, and a Creonian moment is embraced to retain it, the revolutionary taking 'the heroic attitude of “Somebody has to do the dirty work, so let's do it!”'