The intent of the policy, she said, is not to put everybody in a ditto environment, where all are expected to look and act exactly like all others.

The day was damp, and they were not going to walk out, so they both went up to their sitting-room;

Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.

Caron Beaumarchais (or de Beaumarchais [Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais], for he got ennobled) had been born poor, but aspiring, esurient; with talents, audacity, adroitness; above all, with the talent for intrigue: a lean, but also tough indomitable man.