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Under constant surveillance by her master, Jacobs similarly wrote, “I had rather live and die in jail than drag on, from day to day, through such a living death.”

Early SigAlerts had rather a small-town feel, like a town crier.

The school says this is because they were not removed from their roles - but had rather been suspended.

"It's fair to say the past few weeks have had rather a 'medical' focus," he said.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it in 1860: “Men had rather be deceived than not; witness the secure road to riches of Barnum and the quacks.”