The under steward is the Stewards deputy, and sometimes appointed by writing, sometimes by paroll, and the extent of his Authority, is as great as the Stewards owne Authority, and his office consisteth in performance of the selfe same duties, that the high Steward himselfe is to performe, onely in this point the power of the Steward goeth beyond the power of the understeward, that the Steward can make an admittance out of Court, and it shall stand good if entry be made in the Court Roll, that he that is admitted, hath paid his fine and hath done fealty, but the understeward though he may take a surrender out of the Court, yet he cannot make any admittance out of Court, without especiall Authority or particular Custome.
This act we may call a rhetic act, and the utterance which it is the act of uttering a rheme. - How To Do Things With Words (1962) by J.L. Austin (OUP paperback edition, 93)
George Landers, a manufacturer from New Britain, Conn., built No. 51, with porch-fence cutouts of horses, rabbits and swans; tiny dragon heads lunge out from the delicate spindlework.
‘Shhh,’ said Millat irritably. ‘Not everyone can know. If you want to get near the centre, you’ve got to keep shtoom.’
