He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face.

Other accounts maintain that the Saljuq family and its followers were allowed to live on the frontier of the huge Samanid amirate …

Some thinkers regard appealing to authority as a logical fallacy; others regard it as a legitimate form of argument.

Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.