“Is this Mr. O’Connor’s chamber?” inquired a voice of peculiar richness, intonated not unpleasingly with a certain melodious modification of the brogue […]

Sides or skins finished by folding with grain side in and rubbing the surface together under pressure of an instrument known as a handboard .

[…] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.

My immediate inclination was to send her to the nearby Sekolah Kebangsaan - or National School.