Paul is from New Zealand.

Entire villages were often charged with the derbendci duty and consequently exempted from certain taxes.

Someone standing by the entrance had casually asked, Waz up, Tiny, waz up, Marquis?

[…] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments