The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.

She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.

‘Monsieur,’ Louis XV glacially remarked to Choiseul days before the dénouement, ‘I told you that I did not want war.’

The first man known to have descended Gaping Gill is well known on the Continent as an expert cave-explorer or speleologist — to use the new term which he perhaps invented.