Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.

The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical , or ethnarchical authority , for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them

In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.

Having mislaunched the first move to pull down the NWFP coalition the party leadership is now facing the opposition's strong argument that it has always proved impatient with the opposition.