The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough.

In this case of supermorbid obesity, the patient was unable to get out of bed.

in their eyes usually on a moveable footstalk ; their palpigerous mandibles ; and their four antennæ

The military and the fire service are probably the two roughest environments in which such a device will see service.