Within the Solar System, the rocky planets are the four inner planets closest to the Sun.

The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had laited a long time for the children, but could not find them, evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?

They argue that people possess a collection of qualities that place them on a continuum of desirability in the sexual marketplace.

The villain of this piece—the worm in the apple of Revolutionary antislavery—was white racism.