[…] He stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backsof the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.

to sweeten water, butter, or meat

As in the case of the Drinfel'd double,¹³¹ it can be shown that these fields are subfields of the cyclotomic field Q _N. Since the Galois group of Q _N is abelian, every subfield of the cyclotomic field is normal, and consequently preserved by the action of the Galois group of Q _N.

Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!