a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

Arithmetic should overlap algebra, because the simpler parts of Algebra are easier than higher arithmetic; and some knowledge of algebra would conduce to a more intelligent appreciation of such topics as proportion, evolution, application of percentage, etc.

Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs […] and ale.

The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.