The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted. She advanced with the step of an empress, till she came beside the Queen, when, dropping on her knee, she kissed the hem of her robe, and then the royal hand.

Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket.

The years following 1819 thus witnessed a resurgence of continental federationalism ...

The pike axe, a single blade axe with a point on the back side of the head, was designed for forcible entry.