2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page42:
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train wasdue, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was justdue to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
The dangerously low water table isdue to rapidly growing pumping.
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle wasdue not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, inRailway Magazine, page57:
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly theirdue.
2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, inThe Guardian (London)[1]:
Chelsea, to give them theirdue, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly littledues of wheat, and wine and oil;[…]
1667,John Milton, “Book II”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
enkelte av disse blide duer var tilmed så foretaksomme at de ikke nøyde seg med å legge brev og aviser fra seg på det store bordet i hålen
some of these cheerful pigeons were even so enterprising that they did not content themselves with leaving letters and newspapers on the big table in the hole
