He described the service as ‘preserved in aspic, speaking with the plummy tones of a Britain that scarcely existed any longer’.

Edwin Baer was an ugly troll of a man. He stood just about five feet, six inches and maybe weighed 140 pounds soaking wet.

Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.

The Greco-Latin coincidences are presumably due to the independent preservation of elements of the most ancient IE. vocabulary. They do not necessarily imply any intimate relationship between Greek and Latin leading to the postulation of a pre-historic 'Italo-Greek' unity.