The reverend gentleman got into his gig with a slight effort, for it was high-hung, and at fifty men are not, for the most part, so lithe as they once were, especially if good living and an orderly or rather somnolent course of existence have increased their bulk, and somewhat flaccified their muscles.

Being Erica: Though not perhaps technically a traditional sitcom, it is a rather unique situation and often very deftly comic, courtesy of Michael Riley and breakout star Erin Karpluk, as a time-travelling therapist and therapee, along with Kathy Laskey and John Boylen as her parents.

Onboard Doppler radar can warn pilots about wet microbursts by detecting the associated column of rapidly-descending rain.

In the case of the very large caps called detonators, which are used in firing dynamite and gun cotton, is there not some risk of explosion en masse?—Yes, if you get large quantities of percussion powder together, there would be greater danger; […]