Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.

The procedure of pulse palpation is termed sphygmology, literally meaning 'the study of the pulse'.

This became necessary because the 1982 exchange rate devaluation virtually bankrupted the Chilean financial sector (Loser 1987). The banks had borrowed large sums denominated in dollars and on-loaned them to domestic borrowers […]

the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross