Such towns as stand, as one may say, on tiptoes on the very umstroke, or on any part of the utmost line of a map […]

In a remote southwestern pocket of the Central African Republic, doctor Patrick Karume and his small team are on the jungle frontline to quarantine a rare outbreak of monkeypox.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!