The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]

1942: I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a Slava (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)

‘The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating house in the country’ (Russell Baker).

Having come in At last and closed the door and lighted her lamp, Sometimes she would go back for an afterlook.