The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

There is barely enough money, so we will have to make do with what we have.

The tester and crupper, together with the piser, which probably protected the chest, formed the basis of most horse armour[…]

Her face, helmeted with steely-gray hair, was barely visible at the head of the bed, and her thin, bed-jacketed arms stretched on either side of her on top of the heavy futons, so that she looked like a pharaoh or the top of a marble sarcophagus.