I ate a kebab in a Cypriot cafe with the freezing rain spatting in the doorway and I was poured a soup-like cup of builder's tea.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

[He]had his titles by Tenantius, whom He serv'd with glory and admir'd success, So gain'd the suraddition Leonatus

The Iſle of Sheppey affords a kind of ſpar-like gypſa, of a fibrous nature, and always accreting like the radiations of a ſtar on the ſeptaria, and thence called ſtella ſeptarii.