There was nothing to be seen but wave after wave of tussock grass - patched with purple orchids and manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs.

At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks)

He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

At Princeton a lone townsman cried Down with Mussolini! in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace.