That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

Such towns as stand, as one may say, on tiptoes on the very umstroke, or on any part of the utmost line of a map […]

In a remote southwestern pocket of the Central African Republic, doctor Patrick Karume and his small team are on the jungle frontline to quarantine a rare outbreak of monkeypox.