How To Use Comforts In A Sentence
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Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining.
The Sun
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Mr Thompson thanked the committee members and those who provided the comforts, as well as benefactors and subscribers.
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But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
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Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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She enjoys the material comforts married life has brought her.
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Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
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From the tastefully appointed mosaic inlays and concaved walls adorned with statues and his paintings, the mosaic swimming pool and Japanese garden with plenty of creature comforts, make for unforgettable ambiance.
San Antonio
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Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labour and toil of others.
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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They can be very selfish where their physical comforts are concerned.
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I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night.
Isabelle
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Their apartment is devoid of all comforts.
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Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
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Such comforts take the forms of more leisure and ease in life in the field of physical sciences, while in the spiritual field they become rituals and traditions.
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The novel's abstinence from readerly comforts such as character and atmosphere is as impressive as it is incapacitating.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Emily, too, starts sobbing, and her husband comforts her.
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They believe that by travelling without the comforts of luxury hotels and first class trains they will truly experience their foreign surroundings.
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Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
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Those who through grace can glory in tribulation ought to glorify God in tribulation, and give him thanks for their comforts, which abound as their afflictions do abound.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Pleasures_ was published -- 1682-1683 -- the following work was registered at Stationers 'Hall: _The Woman's Advocate, or fifteen real comforts of matrimony, being in requital of the late fifteen_ sham _comforts_.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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It is they who make her undergo the discomforts or miseries of what we call conventional life or bully her into exile or death.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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This inability of a provincial court judge to put public safety above the comforts of the criminal is unacceptable.
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She had many comforts compared with older vessels, including stabilisers to reduce rolling in rough seas.
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People in this group tend to be highly culturally aware and sensitive to the discomforts of ‘post-modernists’.
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I hate camping?I miss all my creature comforts.
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He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
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My sister spent several months there - and like everyone I've met who's ever been to the place, fell totally in love with it, despite its many ghastly discomforts and problems.
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Pleasures_ was published -- 1682-1683 -- the following work was registered at Stationers 'Hall: _The Woman's Advocate, or fifteen real comforts of matrimony, being in requital of the late fifteen_ sham _comforts_.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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He piles his life high with complexities and in place of life being for necessities, and they few and simple, it is largely for comforts which we call necessities, and Professor Huxley has said that the struggle for comforts is more cruel than the struggle for existence.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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The sun was scorching his bare back and his thighs were beginning to ache from the friction of the horse's saddle-free back, but he ignored the discomforts.
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What are all the comforts of the home of Dives, if they end in perdition?
Three Discourses
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And most importantly, Du Bois stressed the ways in which religious institutions can be recognized as social, communal centers which provide this-worldly rewards and comforts.
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They were also closely related, if not to the survival, at least to the elemental comforts of man.
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material comforts
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If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill.
An Englishman Looks at the World
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He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
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His presence comforts me though - something about his personality makes me feel warm inside.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. Benjamin Franklin
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He has no interest in comforts, possessions, or normal pleasures.
A Brief History of Yasir Arafat
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I prefer micro-budget travel (so will carry extra US gas!) but enjoy bargain comforts too, like $3/night camping at Playa Zipolite, or a $5/night beachfront palapa at Playa Naranjo (or others), south of Mulege.
Jan. 22/23 Caravan to B. Concepcion OR Oaxaca?
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What the saloon bar lacked in creature comforts it made up for by the complete absence of journos.
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Some few who had no music in their souls, or no money in their pockets, dawdled about; and the old spectacle of the visitor – wife and the depressed unseasoned prisoner still lingered in corners, as broken cobwebs and such unsightly discomforts draggle in corners of other places.
Little Dorrit
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True, it is hard for a monk not to touch money and to live without the comforts of this world.
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Generally, in culture these discomforts, stimulations, are blocked out; they are not speakable, packageable, or they are disruptive.
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One of four cruise ships to be hosted by the Port in a six-day period, Sea Cloud II carries 94 passengers and 56 crew members with the windjammer combining modern comforts and elegant sailing traditions.
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Forget stuffy formality; this restored village offers guests a taste of authentic Tuscany with added comforts.
Times, Sunday Times
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My interviewer couldn't see past the potential discomforts of walking up and down mountain slopes carrying a heavy pack containing all my camping gear.
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He is, of course, known for his travels within the comforts of the developed world.
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They could explore the area, learn its resources and contrive small comforts in their rooms.
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For James McConnell and the estimated 3 million other Americans with celiac disease, staying away from gluten is a fact of life if they want to prevent long-term intestinal damage and the myriad digestive discomforts that come with the disease.
A New Diet Villain
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And this, till its end was answered, they would all steadily continue, and then, with chearful self-approvance, resume their wonted comforts.
Camilla
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For about $10,000 a day, aquanauts have access to the habitat - and the ocean - with all the comforts of home: six bunks, a shower, instant hot water, a microwave, a refrigerator, air conditioning and computers.
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Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a metropolis.
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A home that has both period style and modern comforts - is it perfection?
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You don't need to sacrifice creature comforts or go off into the middle of nowhere to be a green traveler; you can visit big cities or small villages, and stay in small ecolodges or luxury hotels.
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She forsook her suitors and renounced the comforts of her family home.
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I can only hope she was kept well supplied with all the little comforts she missed.
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All parks offer the best choice of quality caravan accommodation with all the comforts of home.
The Sun
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He should secure the shutter, he knows, but it comforts him to have some sound of activity issuing from the house.
Excerpt: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
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I doubt he sat in the comforts of his home angerly shaking his fist at the radio or TV.
Obama mocks Newsweek cover, Newsweek hits back
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And my father’s maledict — — But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe
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They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.
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The blessing of God, as ours in covenant, is that which sweetens all our creature-comforts to us, and makes them comforts indeed; then we receive the increase of the earth as a mercy indeed when with it God, even our own God, gives us his blessing.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The engines are humming my lullaby and their baffled sound comforts me.
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Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.
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Participants have been selected from hundreds of applicants to leave behind their families, jobs and home comforts to live together under one roof and conform to strict house rules.
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Too timid to risk present comforts, they never muster the spine to acquire or risk their own capital.
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Some of the common discomforts of pregnancy such as nausea, fatigue, and breast tenderness will be most pronounced during these early weeks.
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I read once that when packing you should ask yourself which items are necessities and which are comforts, and take only the necessities.
POPCO
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The same deal in the swanky Old Istanbul Ramada Hotel with all comforts and casino is ￡326.
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Falling asleep stuffed, waking up hungry at midnight, standing over the toilet with Jell-O legs, hoping the forecast for rain is wrong, and savoring morning comforts like an email from home and the first sip of coffee, my commiserative teammate and I wake ourselves up for another race day.
Ben King Diary: Inside the Team RadioShack bus – still a novelty
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Surf by day, cosmopolitan comforts by night: we ate outside at pretty old clifftop restaurants, drank wine from Gérard Dépardieu's nearby vineyards, and wandered along the pier that juts from the spectacular coastline out through the breakers.
Summer holidays: 10 of the best trips for couples
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On marriage: Marriage is “much more necessary to a man than a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.”
2006 October « One-Minute Book Reviews
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At its best the guesthouse could be a world unto itself, moderately cool in the blazing afternoon, far from lavish, yet still a trustworthy provider of clean bedsheets and bottled water and other ordinary comforts.
Heaven Lake
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She is full of rustic charm but modernised to include creature comforts such as a sink, fridge and gas hob.
The Sun
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Monet valued the comforts of a middle-class existence, and even as a penniless student his love of the finer things in life was noted.
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Help was on its way, but to Hat it was help as meaningless as prayers for the dead and the comforts of religion.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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When there's nothing left to say, you turn to physical comforts, and pretend that still means something.
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The Vitamin Shoppe announced that Histame from Naturally Vitamins is now available. is a dietary supplement that helps with the discomforts of food intolerance, also known as histamine intolerance, by replenishing the body's enzyme Diamine Oxidase (DAO).
Undefined
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They all offer the best choice of quality caravan accommodation with all the comforts of home.
The Sun
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And when things have gone well, how the waker comforts himself among the bedclothes as he claims for himself to be whole all over, teres atque rotundus, — so to have managed his little affairs that he has to fear no harm, and to blush inwardly at no error!
The Way We Live Now
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This would have a cathartic effect; it would release us from the torments of hypocrisy, from the discomforts of a lie.
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He at once covets and scorns material comforts - and both envies and despises those who enjoy them.
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Their apartment is devoid of all comforts.
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This isn't the first time that students have put the comforts of the western world behind them to help in one of the poorest regions of the world.
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I could run outside into the rain, stomp my bare feet on the (ten-week) uncut wet grass, and have my own private Glastonbury experience with all the comforts of home.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. Benjamin Franklin
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Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
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all the comforts of home
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This will cause him anxiety, frustration, agitation and other mental discomforts.
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Hrace it at once, as we have before related, was, that personal abase and the from a state of indigence and dis - nsost licentioas and ancandid scur - tress, to taste the comforts of very iriltty continually flowed from his considerable emoluments frona his
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
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With the wisdom of those past years we need to tweak it a bit because people like their comforts.
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And we surrounded ourselves with personal comforts.
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She desperately missed her home comforts while camping.
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Kendal, whither I had sent all my clothes and viatica; from thence to go to London, and to see whether or no I could arrange my pecuniary matters, so as leaving Mrs. Coleridge all that was necessary to her comforts, to go myself to Madeira, having a persuasion, strong as the life within me, that one winter spent in a really warm, genial climate, would completely restore me.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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It was with bitter ill-will that he relinquished these comforts (which he called his studies) in order to recommence a hard ride upon a high-trotting horse.
Old Mortality
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The extremity of dying agonies is no obstruction to the living comforts that wait for holy souls on the other side death.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
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It's also a little small for me (as is San Miguel) -- Irapuato has a population of about 500,000 which brings with it certain comforts and amenities.
Comonfort
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This one-time military hard man has, he admits, grown attached to his home comforts.
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These nonmedicinal treatments of common ailments may help you, but if discomforts persist or worsen, consult your caregiver for further treatment.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
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What comforts me is less the company of men than being an individual with a role to fulfil in life.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other words, it offers almost all the comforts and luxuries foreign travelers are accustomed to.
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Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.
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All parks offer the best choice of quality caravan accommodation with all the comforts of home.
The Sun
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You get all the comforts of cabin life – a bed, reprieve from the bugs, and weather – while still being able to connect to the surrounding nature.
Jason Sahler | Inhabitat
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When the mirth of carnal worldlings ceases the joy of the saints is as lively as ever; when the merry-hearted do sigh because the vine languishes the upright-hearted do sing because the covenant of grace, the fountain of their comforts and the foundation of their hopes, never fails.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Rather, he drew a picture of the opportunities to be presented to the boys in seeing the new land, of what he called the comforts of their snug cabin and of the advantages that must come to all young men in becoming acquainted with the little-known frontiers of their country.
On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland
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In nearly all of his films, work—in particular direct, physical labor carried out cooperatively and for the community rather than for individual gain—is portrayed as noble, while the desire for material comforts and luxuries is shown as the source of corruption.
A Renegade History of the United States
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But now the military's fresh faces can get a bit of the comforts of home - by wasting their pals in an online game.
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We would have to return at 6am the following morning, so we head back to the comforts of our little cabanas instead.
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If he lay but a finger upon their earthly comforts, or hide their path for a few moments behind a sharp turning, they begin doubting and wailing, as if He were some God whose kindness they did not know, whose power they dared not trust; and the poor prayers by which they think they evince their faith, are little better than impa -
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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As a lazy fat cat with a liking for home comforts, Boo-boo is not an animal who ever travels far.
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Home remedies and other nonmedicinal ways to relieve discomforts and symptoms of minor illnesses
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
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They all offer the best choice of quality caravan accommodation with all the comforts of home.
The Sun
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May we learn to appreciate its beauty and its comforts whilst we still have them to enjoy.
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He is the seducer on behalf of the life of crime—fast money, creature comforts, control.
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The suffering that contributes to our own comforts is an especially egregious "loss of memory.
Boycotts Must Happen in the Heart
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Lakes are important to human habitation as they address certain hydrological factors, provide a biotic environment, and are useful temperature comforts.
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Lounge into adjustable reclining seats, manipulate the overhead AC vents to your liking and take your fill of the comforts of luxury travel.
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We also had to have an outlet to control the constant supply of comforts, such as woollen clothing, candies, cigarettes, and reading matter, so that they could be distributed to meet the needs of all.
The Merchant Navy: The Fourth Arm of the Fighting Services
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What comforts me is less the company of men than being an individual with a role to fulfil in life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hot dogs and bug juice may be necessary to sustain life, but physical comforts are an essential ingredient to sustain emotional health.
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This hotel offers a contemporary design with modern comforts and is the perfect base for exploring this beautiful city.
The Sun
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Like other internees, they lived in hastily built barracks with little privacy or basic comforts.
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We are beholden to those of our mothers who wanted to keep a beautiful home (no matter how much or how little money they had) and to Martha Stewart and also to Cheryl Mendelson (and her wonderful and very informative book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) to a new understanding that housekeeping is a gratifying and civilizing activity.
January Organizing and Housecleaning
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Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
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His father was a French polisher who did not work often enough to provide the family with many creature comforts and they lived in a tiny back-to-back terraced house.
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Pure air -- from the neighbourhood of a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts.
Merry Men
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Electricity provides us with warmth and light and all our modern home comforts.
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Crest Hotel Formerly known as the Esso, this bright modern caravanserai has all the comforts and expected facilities.
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The system was one which, although it had its irritations, also had its comforts and amenities for both sides.
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Is there some secret sin harboured and indulged in thy bosom, which hinders the operation of divine comforts?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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The company's Web site says its Platinum Luxury Restroom Trailers offer the ultimate in elegance with interiors that provide all the comforts of home.
As Stewart gets ready to restore sanity, potty installers will provide the relief
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The appeal of the en suite bathroom and other custom-built comforts seems to grow as graduation approaches.
Times, Sunday Times
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The child may completely ignore pain orr react very strongly to slight discomforts.
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Each astronaut is allowed a "bonus food allotment" to bring some of the comforts of home to outer space.
NASA Watch: March 2009 Archives
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This hotel offers a contemporary design with modern comforts and is the perfect base for exploring this beautiful city.
The Sun
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. Benjamin Franklin
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But Dick only warmed his coat tails at the fire as he said, with a very ungenerous reminiscence of his father's manner: "You are going back to an excellent establishment, where you will enjoy all the comforts of home -- I can specially recommend the stickjaw; look out for it on
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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We should have correction centres with no comforts or special privileges such as colour television or pool tables.
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While travelling she missed the comforts of home.
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Something that soothes, pacifies, comforts.
Times, Sunday Times
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With Nick Park as a co-director, Aardman has gone on to achieve phenomenal Oscar-winning success with Creature Comforts, the famous zoological vox pops and the unforgettable, Wallace and Gromit.
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Abstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts
Images from Writings of William Dean Howells
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It has a host of modern comforts and conveniences alongside numerous period features throughout its 240 square metres of living space.
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An adversarial, unsmiling character, Bourdain has a gratuitous grudge against a society whose bourgeois comforts he long ago rejected.
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It comforts me to know that every time I go to synagogue to pray on Shabbat, my Zadie is right there, davening beside me.
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.
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You think too much of material comforts.
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A warm house and good food are material comforts.
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And, before Christ by his graces and comforts comes to any for salvation, preparation is made for him by repentance, which is called the preparation of the gospel of peace, Eph. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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I know that I won't have all the comforts and luxury in Israel but I don't care for that.
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They found themselves better off in their idle old days under the new regime, enjoying vastly more pleasures and comforts than they had in their busy and toilsome youth under the old regime.
Goliah
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Physical safety and creature comforts exact a terrible price in that regard.
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But for people who feel marginalized, the opportunity to insert their voice may be worth whatever risks or discomforts.
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The second aspect of stretching is to stretch ourselves beyond our own comforts.
Christianity Today
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The scientist denied himself many of the comforts of life.
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It was discouraging how few of the world's prodigal comforts were nowadays available for enjoyment.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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This system allows the guilty party to remain in full possession of the home and all the accompanying comforts and conveniences.
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We cannot be content with ‘cheap comforts, living a warm and comfortable lie.’
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The bathhouse was a great building full of comforts.
Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii
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Minor discomforts start long trains of thought.
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Despite having all the physical comforts we could ask for, we pined for Jimmy.
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Their playing is willfully steeped in the discomforts of danger and exploration, and their inventions all the more stunning for their studied adversity.
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But you still get all the options of creature comforts you would expect in a family saloon.
The Sun
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_The Town being diverted of late with a great many Comforts, several of the Gentlemen and others of the cornuted Society belonging to
The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men
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Young people should never simply go in for material comforts.
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Some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican .
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This room is fitted up with modern comforts.
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As those are not fit to be sown with divine comforts whose fallow ground is not first broken up, so those are not fit to be employed in sowing who know not how to break up the fallow ground, but, when they have laid their hand to the plough, upon every occasion look back and think of quitting it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The status of a happening city comes with its own discomforts.
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We have a biological existence, through which we experience the vital values of creature comforts, physical ease, agreeableness, adaptability and corporeal pleasures.
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Holidaymakers are no longer satisfied with home comforts when they book a trip away and are looking for outdoor activities to keep them amused.
Times, Sunday Times
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Enjoy all modern comforts in an historic parador omitted information addresses Regional delicacies Each region has its own specialities.
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Are there any others out there ready to give up the creature comforts of materialism and strike back for the working class?
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The collection explores a wide range of themes, the main ones being leaving and arriving, the discomforts of teenage years, and the beauty and agony of love relationships.
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The second aspect of stretching is to stretch ourselves beyond our own comforts.
Christianity Today
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Millennium People" presents a parallel-reality London convulsed by revolution and terrorism, but the novel is also about the sterility of modern comforts and the aphrodisiacal thrill of rebellion.
'The Bonfire Of the Volvos'
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They knew that they would be housed, clothed and well fed whether they earned these comforts or not; so, in order to insure diligence, reliable men were chosen from among them as assistants to the white overseers; these were called "foremen," and were looked up to with respect by their fellows.
Plantation Sketches
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As the sun set that evening, I sat back into the arms of the substantial, saturated air, and watched the fireflies flicker from the comforts of a lawn chair.
Chasing Fireflies
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Even if no one ever contacts you this way, just the presence of this information comforts edgy customers.
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Electricity provides us with warmth and light and all our modern home comforts.
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They appreciate all the creature comforts of home.
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Among the stadium's comforts are 800 parking spots - great for tailgating - 36 concession stands, a retail store, a video arcade, and a Crew Hall of Fame exhibit.
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There are few joys, few comforts of senectitude, and mashed taters and meatloaf slathered with heart valve clogging bone gravy are that aplenty.
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There is a lack of creature comforts that customers of other airlines tend to take for granted.
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Enjoy all modern comforts in an historic parador omitted information addresses Regional delicacies Each region has its own specialities.
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As if by magic all the man's discomforts disappeared in a couple of days: his head was refreshed and his eyes became bright.
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And my father's maledict ---- But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
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True, it is hard for a monk not to touch money and to live without the comforts of this world.
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Life in the slums of south London is portrayed frankly and sympathetically, not merely as a parade of sordid details but as a real lived-in environment with its own joys and comforts alongside the more negative aspects.
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Khusrû was treated with great kindness by his father, after he had been barbarously deprived of sight; [17] but when his brother, Shâh Jahân, was appointed to the government of Southern India, he pretended great solicitude about the comforts of his _poor blind brother_, which he thought would not be attended to at court, and took him with him to his government in the
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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They appreciate all the creature comforts of home.
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Needless to say we're keeping all these environmental hazards and discomforts in mind and we'll be very, very careful to select our next house accordingly.
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Bentham appreciated his creature comforts: according to Negley Harte, the University of London's historian, his embalmed body wears a pair of knitted underpants, unlike most of his contemporaries, who simply tucked their shirt-tails between their legs.
Me in the Economist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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As a young boy, that meant giving up sitting in front of the TV with my cup of coffee, 2 sugars and a biscuit (these were the comforts of my life at that time).
