For the first adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open], you might need to remove the screws from the frame, move the hinge slightly, and then make new screw holes with a bradawl and reinsert the screws.

Most modern tharids involve alternating layers of stew and flatbread. … In the Middle Ages, very elegant tharids were made.

desiring Camilla to bear with his respectlessness therein

[T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.