His philosophy, said General William Wannamaker, "was to delegate wherever he could, and then put the screws to the delegees.

The least frequently used dye was argamannu, which was also red and probably produced a shade of blue-purple, although different from that of takiltu.

I could imagine this ex-naval man saying something like, 'That will teach you bumfluffed babies to leave shooting tigers to your betters.'

In his head, language flows, lithe and lissom, eloquent, all that he would say, all that he would like to tell her of what he has been feeling, what he has been thinking.