[…] in 1215, the Maronite patriarch visited Rome and participated in an ecumenical council.

He eats a completely vegan diet.

On the old lecturn or reading-stand which he used for his heavier tomes, The Testaments of Carnamagos, in its covers of shagreen with hasps of human bone, lay open at the very page which had frightened him so unreasonably with its eldritch intimations.

A butcher bird has stirred, tuned its flute with a few preparatory notes.