How intelligent are the Chinese jugglers, keeping cracked plates spinning in the air ; not to mention the Salvation Army with their tan-truming tamboureens and utilitarian music to help us on the routemarch towards heaven.

It should instead have been saved as a reserve force, a fleet in being, as long as possible, and then committed in a Riskflotte operation at a key juncture, striking a decisive blow even if it involved its sacrifice.

We diverted ourselves with bantering several other poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.

Nuchal thickness was the first sonographic marker associated with an increased risk of trisomy 21 in the fetus and is now accepted as the single most sensitive and specific marker for the detection of DS in the second trimester, in high- and low-risk pregnancies.