For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call it? so dinnery,—the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window—

In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night

In 1639–42, the average value of an arquebus à rouet was 80 livres; flintlock muskets were valued at 6 livres.

South Africa, covering only 0.8% of the earth's terrestrial area, is one of the planet's 18 megadiverse countries, defined by Conservation International as nations that harbour the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species.