It is no coincidence that when chefs Bocuse and Vergé organised a stratospherically expensive Mediterranean cruise […] they called on the skills of their friend Lenôtre to produce Bocuse's legendary truffle soup.

When a motorbike sped too fast down their little side street, … Daeng and Nat would be revisiting many ranting conversations they'd had about motorbikes treating this tiny soi like it was the highway.

I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.

1658: If any shall doubt why at the Amphidromicall Feasts, on the fifth day after the Childe was born presents were sent from friends, of Polipusses, and Cuttle-fishes? — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 213)