Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean.

Jefferson Hunter's account of Edwardian fiction employs similar imagery when he argues that 'nostalgic Edwardianism' is invested in this idea of the 'single long country-house weekend from Edward's coronation to his passing and, beyond that, to the guns of August'.

I couldn't live wi' a snaggy man like him if I was paaid for it.

Some seasons a large number of berries are buttony.