I doubt there is a zoo in the world which doesn't have at least a few of these gorgeous creatures strutting through the grounds, from time to time deigning to show off the most extravagant plumage in all of birddom.

I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.

Nonbooks are of several kinds; but their differences notwithstanding, they all share two common features: they tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons, and they are all means rather than ends. … Of all nonbooks, the most conspicuous example is the ‘coffee-table book’. The latter usually find their market by virtue of their decorative assets rather than from any literary or intellectual merit, or for that matter – since such works are often art books – by significantly serving important aesthetic or historical purposes.

The Class 87 is the only main line-certified member of the fleet left in the UK, although there are 21 classmates in use overseas …