the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision

Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica, / Spare not for cost.

I thought it particularly unfortunate, inappropriate, ill-conceived and dupably injudicious that the United States should have been cast in the leading role as prosecutors and implementators of the trials of German participants or principals.

The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.