But delaying the reform was the cattle farmers' lobby and other landed societies, which were actively vying to counter the so-called Communist influence of the National Peasant Union, a powerful lobby challenging the status quo.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.

In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.