And there was the whole valley spread out down below us, the brown river looking blue and the fields that were so rusty-poor, close up, a fine green from that distance, and even our house with its scrabbly yard looking like a pretty little farm.

A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.

Witte and Reinicke argue that the private sector's integration with a “trisectoral network” of states, international organizations, and civil society actors increases public policy's responsiveness to a changing environment.

“I’d like to take a look at you without all that stuff on, so I could see what difference it makes.” Grinning, I said, “Sorry, I can’t unwig in here.”