To seek a justification for a decision already made.
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.