Minutes later, Molly found herself seated inside the stagecoach with a rather girthsome gentleman occupying the opposite bench. Grateful to be spared the experience of spending a night in Sulfur Falls, she situated her satchel—the single piece of luggage the driver, a Mr. Lewis, had said he could accommodate—on the seat beside her.

The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

Ṭabarī, vol. I, pp. 27–26 relates that between 41–60 H./661–679, the Šāh of Kābulistān had chased to Amul (in Tabaristan: see Marquart, index) his brother the Rutbīl who became ruler of Seistān, Al-Ruḫḫaǧ, Al-Dāwar.

The Panjandrum lurched and overturned, the crash dislodging several of the rockets, which flew low over the beach in all directions […] .