It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

The sheep-ked, or kaid (Melophagus ovinus), is one of the most common and annoying pests to which the sheep is subject.

By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.