noughts-and-crosses

Definitions

Examples

• As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

• Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.

• The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.

• She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

• No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

• Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.

• Father Salvierderra said if we repined under our crosses, then a heavier cross would be laid on us.

• They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.