His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.

Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the (imagined) childhood of a particular vagrant.

Reviewing the histories of France, Russia, and Great Britain, which are nowise stories of peaceful unaggression, and judging national character as exhibited therein, […]

In Southwest Asia, cereals were among the first plants to be domesticated, with einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L.), emmer wheat (T. dicoccum Schiibl.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) present at farming sites dating to the 9th millennium BC (Bell, 1987; Kislev, 1992; Zohary and Hopf, 2000).