£sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”

I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.

[…] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.

This is presumably because CIFOR used the services of a “rain man,” whose charges to keep rain away from Bogor for the evening were a small fraction of what it would have cost to hire a marquee.