‘India's villages are the colonies of the city,’ Singh often complained about Nehruvian India.

Blue was not as good a 'womanizer' as the rest of us, (surrounded, as we were, by 'manizers,') but he was a great guy to run into for a drink and a story, and a good friend and observer of the rest of us.

all very abstract and not too consistent in view of Hardy's own stories, which were even at that time so seriously attacked, on one side by the realists because they were said to be too unreal, and on the other by the idealists because they were too nakedly factish.

And all its light loomed green / As a witch-flame's weirdsome sheen