European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

The Italian Parliament has long been a three-ring circus.

You're a ship's cousin, I tell ye, Master Doo-but-little, roared the steward; some such matter as a ship's cousin, sir..

Thus it will be seen that, although its detractors do all they can to discourage the use of oil for fuel, its superiority is so great that in spite of its traducers it is forging to the front with mighty, unblockable strides.