[…] One day, perhaps, my pen forehalsening Will dare what now of thee 'tis purposing.

Family Bibles were common in Victorian Britain, and are often used as sources for genealogical research.

They placed too much reliance too soon on global concertings of international actions by multilateral means.

Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.