Exaggerate the “tick a lock” symbol on your lips and press the palms of your hands down toward the floor as a reminder to Madame Celine if she babbles on incessantly in her thick, French Canadian accent, bickering to her beloved husband, Rene, about their trio of boys-will-be-boys sons and her recurrent professional fears that a) she only takes home one award at the Grammy's next year, and b) she contracts tonsillitis and suffers a bout of subsequent prolonged laryngitis.

The Sung dynasty was the great Classical Age and it is on this era that the emphasis in this book falls.

When he said he would pay her back next week, she looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

As even mild grades of thelitis are painful, […] Diphtheritic Thelitis. — Diphtheria of the nipple and areola has occurred […]