We can explain these differences in terms of a virtuous circle of positive feedback in response to market stimulus or a vicious circle of defensive and negative feedback that reinforced anti-market orientations associated with their administrative heritage before the advent of economic reforms.

It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth.

Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. […] [E]ven Muriel and Benjamin [a goat and a donkey] yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.

Flood icing is the consistency of custard and used to fill larger areas or sections of the biscuit with a smooth, shiny surface. As a rule, we allocate two-thirds of the royal icing mixture to making flood icing; the other third is for [lines].