It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings, should be, at the least, equal to twice the width of the top...

I would like to see Oxford and Cambridge turned into graduate universities entirely devoted to research, which at a stroke would cool the ardour of the tiger mothers of Holland Park and Hampstead determined to set their three-year-olds on the path to Oxbridge, whatever the human cost.

Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.

Those grizly hangmen, in their canvass sleeves, Fight for me better than an armed band Of christian knights full cap-apée.