A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.

But Lanfrank, being a privado to the pope's projects […] might antedate this objection against Thomas , using it for the present as a rub to retard him

His unsavory reputation as a mobster came back to haunt him when he ran for mayor of New York.

Commend me to my brother.