There were red hibiscus flowers splashed all over it, yellow dots quivering at the stamens.

He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.

Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]

My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday the 2nd of the month of God, Rajab the Unique, in the year 725 […].