All over British Africa, speakers in their traditional wigs and knee-breeches presided over the rectangular debating chambers of the Westminster model, in which ‘government’ and ‘opposition’ sat facing each other.

… but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.

Coleridge smiles mischievously: 'They pay smooth-tongued publishers to instil a sense of fairness and balance into proceedings.'