A more general form of manipulation of linguistic signs is the acrostic, a set of verses (or words) whose initial letters form a word, phrase or even a sentence. The acrostic constituted a common feature of Egyptian texts as well as forming an important element in the Old Testament ….

Why then did not the Thegnhood of England grow into a nobility such as that which in other lands grew out of the same elements?

To this can be added, that it would be advisable to investigate the effects on both larva and adults of the sharply changed ecological factors, for instance of the artificial muddening of water in the streams, […]

[…] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.