The guests were suitably befrocked and morning-suited for the festivities — a semi-state occasion — in their fine clothes, fascinators and some quite inventive full-on lids […]

Their workday of love was one of ferryings and crossings from shore to shore, island to island, of perceptions into death […]

Jake tossed down three rums.

[…] even in the eleveth and early twelfth centuries, where helmets were of a simple nasal form, the wearing of a mail coif with a ventail that laced across the lower part of the face would have covered enough of the face […]