She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.

Above the shield and helmet is the Crest which is described as : A peacock in pride ar. A translation of the Crest description is : A silver peacock in her pride. Family mottos are believed to have originated as battle cries in medieval times ...

In a period of quiet, he had acquired the name of a man of worth; in darker days, he left the renown of a pitiless proscriber.

A few years ago the breezer was introduced in the Dutch markets. A breezer contains a considerable amount of pure alcohol. Among young people it became the rage to drink a few breezers during a party or in a pub.