‘My God, I was a fool to marry you,’ she spat out.[…]‘There was no need,’ she continued slowly, spittingly, deliberately, ‘to throw my father’s gold cuff-links in the Thames.’

I had bought some jeans and a couple of blue chambray workshirts to replace the kitchen-whites, but such clothes weren't nearly enough.

The executives attend meetings in exotic locations while the rank and file stays at headquarters doing the bulk of the work.

The Sirex woodwasp kills pines and sometimes other conifers by introducing a toxic mucus and fungus when the female lays her eggs through the bark and into the sapwood.