Beginning there weak-handed is not the thing to do.

Also, among party employees, being a Scot or a Munro-bagger, or both, is a good path to promotion.

I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men […] But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.

I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.