There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.

“Imply once more that I am of that breed who prefer amors with their own sex and I shall blow your head off,” he said levelly.[…]But he was merely an accomplished flirt and she was the impoverished Mrs. Carruthers, married to a drunk and a wastrel, and had spent a precious part of the evening allowing herself to be questioned about the amors of a rake by a silly girl.[…]I do not like to broadcast my amors about the town.

As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.

But idiots only may be cozened twice: Once warned is well bewared; …