The primary use of this is to give the column a broader base and to diminish the amount of the cutting away of the solid stone. The griffe, however, is often used for elaborate ornamentation, being carved into vegetable or even animal form.

In America, you have so much divorce—perhaps because adultery was once a capital crime. You've ended up with serial polygamy.

You're bloody berko, Koko! And who's driving? Manny? He's more round the bend than you!

As a result, My beautiful lovely one, the Meg of all the Megs and Margarets and of all the Peggys and of my most Peggy & also of my Grace