Grander still were the stone houses on the ground, and Arien's was the grandest of all, shining with gemstones, edged by intricate, crafted gutterwork, gargoyles of young elves at play and the like […]

Their 'brutal persecutions', he told his friend and patron the Earl of Buchan, were 'unceasingly contrived to distract & misoccupy my attention':

hijra: of meaning and meaning of meaning of emigration by afis a. oladosu first, a short note on the title. the medieval rhetorician and quranologist, abdul qahir al-jurjani, in his important works on rhetoric asrar al-balagh (the secret of rhetoric) and dalail al-ijaz (guides to quranic

Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.