The thistlelike leaves of artichokes glowed silver.

A hogshead will yield something like 240 or 250 bottlesworth: the quantity is not constant, depending possibly on the temperament of the EEC citizen who poured in the wine in the first place.

The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable, and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it […]

Where are these many people who are just freelance buttchugging, just kind of casually shoving glass bottles in their asses because it seemed like a cool, non dangerous way to get drunk? Who are these maniacs bathing their corneas with tequila? I want to follow them around and watch them misbehave at parties!