During his frequent stays at Antioch, Tigranes [king of Armenia], a self-styled king of kings, maintained a sumptuous court with a ceremonial of Achaemenid origin that Plutarch has described.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, […] the floating bulwark of the island.

News director Griff Potter says he wants “a journalist, not a rip-and-reader. Someone who understands that highlights, runs, and errors are boring television.”

He checks retreat; then turning back his course, Remounts the wave , and thro the mingled roar Of ice and storm , reseeks the hostile shore