There were about eleven dialects in Old French, but not all were of literary importance, and all were increasingly dominated from the end of the twelfth century by Francien, the language used by the royal court and the centralized administration in and around Paris.

Mike, as an adult chimpanzee, was a low ranker.

I hate when guys address women as bitches, I be wanting to give his punk-ass stitches.

the ropes of birds