Mourners carried a hundred or more kāhili, some highly unusual or old or with special names, such as the malulani (shade of the heavens), a handsome large kāhili of black ostrich feathers.

the dog-priests, called Enariae […] indulged in sodomitic frenzies in the Dog days at the rising of the Dog-star, Sirius.

The grove was varied by a plantation of rose trees, a few pinasters, and a multitude of winding paths.

[…] bewitched by the culinary oddities introduced by migrants from the scungier sections of the Old World.