All trumpets have a timbral fingerprint […]

1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act 4, Scene 2, page 165:

The only place the railway didn't go was Tibet. The Chinese had abandoned this Tibet line at Golmud in Qinghai, faced by the impenetrable Kunlun Mountains.

The son of an out-of-work contractor can hope for a crack someday at a Senate seat, knowing that the stepgrandson of a woman who lives in a metal-roofed shack is moving into the White House.