Devil's tongue jelly gives this dish a firm bite, while the bacon gives it a smoky flavour.

Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.

Visitors dwindled over time. […] My world shrank as it depopulated. It became my room, the front room, and the kitchen.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.