He’s earned all the best back-pats from all the greasiest palms in Tallahassee and beyond.

On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree.

The sand squink is an egg-laying creature; its eggs are made of a plastic-like material so as to protect the unborn young within from the mother's electrical discharge.

Coordinate term: yachtsman