[Bill Clinton] was just walking around, looking in all the offices, like he was surveying his fiefdom. He had a big grin on his face.

Nick tried for a while to talk to Emile about scrap metal, which tested his Cornelian French to the limits […]

We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.

The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.