... they were among the citizens of the Great Republic who got shut into Paris during the siege, and had reason to complain of the slim pickings even their dollars commanded during that tragic episode of our neighbours' history.

She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.

An excessive film thickness, on the other hand, produces bollarding in which the diameter of the specimen becomes bigger at the ends than at the middle.

She wore an inflatable air jacket stolen from Air France.