2. My early years were spent in Fettes's lowly cattle shed from where God summoned me to Oxford.
Yet anyone turning up at a lowly cattle shed (or whichever air terminal Ryanair is using) this weekend will find a Santa surcharge has been applied to baggage charges for the next fortnight.
The phenomenon occurred when, seemingly out of nowhere, lowly Minnesota would suddenly shed their Twinkies moniker and do weird things, like winning the World Series.
In good weather children can be penned outside safely in lowly cattle sheds.
It was screened, that night, not in the lowly cattle-shed of the Sala Darsena but in the lusher surroundings of the Palazzo del Cinema, and Clooney and his co-star, Sandra Bullock, borne thither in Maseratis, did what the high priests of movies are meant to do — smile, wave, strike a sacred pose, and then descend to greet their congregations.
Over time, because of his increasingly heavy parasite load, the male can no longer chase off competitors; he loses his harem and becomes a lowly bachelor again, until he's shed the worms.
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Oldham have been beset by financial problems in recent months, meaning manager Dickov has had to shed much of his coaching staff but his players produced a display which made a mockery of their lowly position in the third tier.
To shed, and shed, and shed.
