The demand for native wines has diminished of late considerably, and their sale rendered difficult; and, although other causes may, in part, account for this, one of them, not to be overlooked, will be found in the prejudice which has been created against them by the public discussion of the propriety of gallizing our wine, and which has furnished a weapon to the hands of the importers of foreign wines, which they have wielded and still wield with great effect against the use of our native produce.

On the other hand, the acquisition of the legal estate merely as a tabula is usually not a transaction for value, and here at any rate the fact that it is conveyed in breach of an express trust will prevail to take it away.

As Discovery headed towards the landing strip in the Mojave desert, radio contact between Mission Control and the shuttle was kept to a minimum.

If he were to use his fingers instead of his wrist, he would soon have telegrapher's paralysis or a “glass arm," in the lingo of the radio cabin.