For cleanliness, experienced millers prefer an 'overdrift' mill (as, indeed windmills should be, for lightness and efficiency of driving gears), because underdrift gearing becomes very dirty and clogged with a compound of meal dust and grease, besides being generally inaccessible for repairs and adjustments.

There was nothing of disorganization, nothing of procrastination, nothing evincive of a temper to embarrass or obstruct the public business.

Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.

Importantly, however, the final b in *sub 'water' is represented as ()g [ɣ] in all the Turkic languages of the region, which is why it is unlikely that the Mongolian shape of the limnonym could derive from these languages […]