The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.

To this Nesvitsky made the following comment with significant, weighty, and almost scientific precision: "I shall permit myself to distinguish between the concept of 'society woman' and that of a distinguee woman.

“Mm-mm,” I mumble, shaking my head.

Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.