The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.

The character of such fighting is defensive and guerrillalike with snipers and scattered pockets putting up a sustained resistance...

'And now,' she said,'ye maun hae arms:ye maunna gang on dry-handed; but use them not rashly.

Its 50 H-7 2-8-8-2's (30 of which found their way onto the Union Pacific roster in 1945) were simple mainly because a tunnel in the Alleghenies would not accommodate the low-pressure cylinders of any Mallet larger than a 2-6-6-2.