I offered her that sum if she would take the garment back. And she did, she did, and I shall never have to wear that dreadful satin again. ¶ I made a note of this dressmaker's name. She and I may have a bone to pick some day.

One [trope] is ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of art, the most famous example of which may be the careful depiction of the shield of Achilles in book 18 of the Iliad.

Slices of bread and butter are to be a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, sent to table, to eat with the souchy.

Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances?