In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.

The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure.

In the first place, with malapropian ineptness he confused scrupulous with its opposite, unscrupulous.