there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras […] and they wold haue slayne sire Tristram and his two felawes but sire Darras wold not suffre that but kepte them in pryson […] So sire Tristram endured there grete payne for sekenesse had vndertake hym and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue

The Nations, over-aw’d, surcease the Fight, Immoveable their Bodies, fix’d their Sight:

The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up.

In the often emotional arms control debate, there may be no more common fuzzword than verification.