I really put my foot in my mouth during the interview.

The chawush, or sergeant, who had charge of these executions, generally turned them to his profit:[…]

Those who have followed a French army well know that their horses are always rough-shod. … Horses can bear cold when properly fed, and if they had not been rough-shod there were farriers attached to the army.

Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.