Style upright, short, round, forming with the stigma a continuous clavate shaft equal to the limb; stigma decagonally fluted with shallow membranous ridges and alternately wider grooves […]

At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

Jesus called God Abba, a word that originated as a babble word originally used by little children but later adopted as an affectionate and respectful way by which adult children also spoke to their fathers.

It seemed that what started out as a handful of isolated cases gradually turned into a tsunami of complaints.