The two-masted galivat, by comparison, was about 70 tons. Kanhoji also possessed ghurabs (or grabs) which were equivalent to frigates.

Wait, what? The NRA, with its fearless commitment to unlimited ammo, going after a game called Bulletstorm? Really? Really? Notice also how he steered clear of the big-selling, heavily guncentric games like Call of Duty and Modern Warfare.

It will be acquiesced in by a much less deserving band, if band it may be called, when each fights for his own hand, without respect to his neighbour, by those who have set their hearts and their treasures in this world, and exert what powers of thought they in devising a sickly optimism, by which the existing state of things, whatever it may be, may be made into a fool's paradise — men of whom Charles Lamb was perhaps the most favourable specimen, that mild-eyed melancholy Lotophagus of literature.

Discussion of racial purity of coonasses, boogerlees, and out-of-state Cajans represented a relative improvement of the prestige of Cajun: after all, descendants of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana could be called names more pejorative […]