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And lest we forget what this is all about, the WP reports that a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that non-smokers not only live longer, but have less sickness and dependence on others in their last years.
The lovers of freedom want the government to keep its hands off, lest Big Brother’s intermeddling do more harm than good.
It requires a load of patience and I am principled against showing any impatience to little folks lest it should lessen my influence."
Hay poles as a term would never win a popularity contest with computer terminology, but lest we forget, they were poles used in pairs by two men, one out from with a pole in each hand, the other, holding the opposite ends, bringing up the rear, and carrying bales of hay cut by scythe from the hummocks of a bog.
On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.