You will rotationally graze your animals for between 5 and 6 months of the year, and the forages that you need to acquire will be for the winter, or non-grazing months, which in many parts of the northeast seems to last eternally, for upwards of seven months out of the year.
The last line of the oratorio, thundered over chords of marble, becomes self-referential: "But the fame of the just shall eternally last".
When we last checked in, eternally optimistic hotelier Jürgen Bartels was planning a $1.2 billion renovation of his London-based chain of 141 hotels.
And those torments are supposed to last not one minute, one hour, or 1,000 years, but eternally?
Some gladly share their last loaf and remain eternally sated, while others covet every morsel and are always hungry.
Preferable to both in the boisterous nonsense stakes is Australian thriller Son of a Gun (Koch, 15), a silly but slick-witted fusion of prison drama and heist adventure, starring Ewan McGregor as a master thief spearheading that eternally cursed "one last job"; it switches tone (and even genre) every 10 minutes or so, but none of its guises are boring.
This left her daughter eternally waiting, "always the last to be picked up from birthday parties, Sunday School, ballet class".
"To the last president who fired me, I will be eternally grateful".
It is 40 years since we last saw Newton, then a bereft, alcoholic and eternally stranded creature.
Tim Henman has played his last grand slam tournament, and for that alone we should be eternally grateful.
