A lackadaisical attitude to time explains the sobremesa—the time after lunch when everyone has finished eating but no-one wants to get up and leave. Sitting around the table chatting and drinking coffee or brandy or patxarán (a sloe liqueur from the Basque country) is the solution.

glasses of divers kinds ; and amongst them 'some of metals vitrificated

I brush my teeth regularly to prevent tooth decay.

He stoutly defended himself.