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Isolde crouched, with the sun on her back, as the feather fled under the boards, viewing in her mind's eye a phantom letter with Denis's costive handwriting; seeing herself snatch it from the pigeonhole and plunge it secretly into the pocket of her skirt.

Tacitus, in his Dialogue on Oratory, writes: "For the more powerful a man was as a speaker, the more easily did he obtain office, the more decisively superior was he to his colleagues in office, the more influence did he acquire with the leaders of the state, the more weight in the senate, the more notoriety and fame with the people," Tell that to the verbally costive Mitch McConnell or to the lubricious Chuck Schumer.

The costive curator sits on the collection, thwarts loan requests, and would really prefer it if the public, like the collection, were kept in the dark.

He called, during his meeting with the Director of Coordinating Office of Humanitarian Assistance in New York, John Ging who was accompanied by representatives of states of Britain, United States of America, Norway and Netherlands in the Republican Palace Tuesday, for increase of support provided by donor countries to humanitarian work, for, he explained, development and reconstruction are costive than provision of food.

He said when oil prices soar to high skies as was the case in the recent years, the international oil sector tend to increase investments, noting that this led to huge oil production costive levels, citing deep water fields, north pole fields, heavy raw fields in Canada and Venezuela and shale oil fields in the U.S.

The dialogue is always bouncy (even costive Doug is given some spicy one-liners) and there are some nice, Brysonish summaries of the towns and hotels the Petersens visit on their break." MARK LAWSON

Eden Vale brought The Bakery's good run of form to a halt as Stancombe and Langley, both with two apiece, helped 'Vale' to a 6-1 win whilst Mottram shared their goals around with Connor Doyle, Paul Colbeck and James and Adam Costive all on target in the 4-0 win over Liverpool Philharmonic.

(14) At that first meeting they argued amicably about whether it was better to be meagre and 'costive', as Davin called it, with one's writing, or to be for copiousness and fluency, as he believed he was himself.