“Oh, G,” said the siren, leaning over the booth, shaking her silicones in Grand's grill. “Did you see my new tattoo?” Pulling her halter aside, the flirt revealed her new tat, Grand scrawled across her breast.
Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account.
It would have been well had he never broken it; for not only was there no lawful promise to him, such as he alleges, but, by his keeping silence at a time when, if ever, he ought to have spoken, and by his unobjectingly receiving payment of what was awarded him, he effectually barred his own way to a recovery of any more here.
Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
