A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;

Paocai that is eaten in two days is obviously more about flavor than preserving.

[…] -- unless of course “culture” is thought to be something decoratively added when all else has been accomplished, the fairy on the Christmas tree: an approach which opens wide the way for culture-vultures and peddlars of arty gentility, upon whom “culture” sits (to misuse an image of T. S. Eliot's) like a silk hat upon a Bradford millionaire.

After three hours of questioning, he finally opened up.