The stalks of the munjeet are very dry, light, and porous; the fracture exhibits a congeries of empty tubes. The powdered munjeet is composed of the thin and thick stalks mixed.

We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.

There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.

There is the lower panelled portion of a parclose screen of a chapel in the south aisle [of Elham Church], of the Early Perpendicular style, of which four compartments are sub-divided into eight; and on each of these, under an ogee-headed and crocketted canopy, is depicted a female saint. Beginning northwards— / 1. Sca [Sancta] Barbara. Crowned and nimbed; habited in a sleeved tunic, having a swan amidst foliage embroidered in gold: her mantle red, with a collar of orphrey fastened by a band; flowing hair; in her right hand a palm branch, in her left a tower.