And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]

[W]e took leave, escorted to the gate by our two young friends, and thence by a nearer way through the ruins to our pinnace, by an elderly man, who said he was the Raja's Muktar, or chamberlain, and whose obsequious courtesy, high reverence for his master's family, and numerous apologies for the unprepared state in which we had found the court, reminded me of old Caleb Balderstone [from Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)].

The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the happies because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, I'm happy at Farah. …

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.