Bowen-Canterbury Tales-Prologue

Walking in public holding hands invariably engenders stares and second looks.

There is also vast military spending, along with sundry other federal programs directing federal money to the states.

Women, meanwhile, took to wearing pants, working outside the home and playing a wider array of sports.

A world in which powerful men are no longer trained into chivalry is depicted as brutish and ugly.

“There’s a lot of verbal jousting going on out there.”

Tropical-storm-force winds were expected to arrive overnight, rendering a last-minute escape more dangerous than sticking around.

Unfortunately, after years of valiant struggle, the company shuts down.

He gathered his bridle and winked at a coy kitchen-maid.

They might just enjoy a weekend in more sedate surroundings.

Everything is carved, burnished, lacquered, stretched and stitched with solicitous care.

Was the supple body that he has flung around N.B.A. hardwoods for the last nine years becoming creaky, at 30, too soon?

Father Keller was a prelate of great talent and well known in the United States.

The brisk pace keeps things from dragging but can also make them feel glossed over and glib.

"And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you," answered the doctor.

But what he sees is only temporalities, not eternal verities.

He was a solicitor of many years' standing, not in practice for himself, but conducting the business of an eminent legal firm.

Under the major league drug agreement, first offenses are arbitrated before any public announcement — but additional offenses are litigated after a suspension is announced.