Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark.

Michael was limber, Sir Alexander stocky; neither was overproficient with his fists.

When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

In 1954 a cotton-cleaning plant was built by the soldiers in the town of Merket; thanks to this plant most of the peasants are now freed from the necessity of cleaning cotton by hand.