Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address andsearch preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the eveningsearching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments aresearching for new sources of return.
For thus saith the LordGod; Behold, I, even I, will bothsearch my sheep, and seek them out.
1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, 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:
Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made lechesserche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple
^Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, inThe Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4),New York:King's Crown Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 12, page42.
^Dobson, E. J. (1957)English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1968,→OCLC,§ 8,page472: “Search hasę̄ in Levins, Bullokar (besideĕ), Gil (1619 edition), and Cooper (followed by Aickin), andĕ in Gil (1621 edition), Hodges, Price, Poole, Cocker, Brown, andRS.”.
