Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus …

Is she not herself in Egypt also taken in the toils of Franco-Levantine influences, as dominant at Cairo as they are at Constantinople ?

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between. His clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter or a farce, or a ballade or a story, no one—neither clerks nor friends nor compositors—would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

Surrounded by a chorus of beautiful women, he jackhammered his way about the stage, rocking his pelvis and occasionally flourishing his hands in a vaguely flamencolike manner.