It may be that the realistic story is commonplace, but so is life, and the realistic tale is true.

She flashed an approving smile.

I am afraid his history on the advent of pan latrines or what is better known to 'thoroughbred colonials' as Thunder Boxes was rather wanting; and I don't blame him. […] [W]ell after the end of the Second World War some boarding schools in Cape Coast were still using thunder boxes.

What would be a typical Polish meal? Around these parts Polish people say it is gołąbki, pierogi and kiełbasa.