During the following days festivities were organised for the coronation of the Dogess, much more various and of longer duration than those which greeted her husband’s elevation to the throne. In older times, when the head of the Republic still possessed real power, his wife played no official part in State ceremonies.

The Court questioned the opportunity of introducing these measures in such an uncertain economic climate.

It was freezing in the tiled cubicle and her bare nipples (A-cuppers didn't have a lot of call for a bra) reacted predictably to the blast of cool air.

[…] more than ever, many of those conversations require me to interject for the sake of clarification: Wait, are you talking about your human child or your dog child?