Moldavia and Wallachia, inhabited by Slaves nominally belonging to the Turkish empire, are in the actual military occupation of Russia. Servia, inhabited by the Slavic Serbs, is avowedly disloyal to the Porte, […]

Having asked him for explanation, he told us that he had waistache and was unfit to do heavy work.

At a cooking demonstration I went to a chef peeled the bottom half of the asparagi with a potato peeler rather than breaking off the end which he claimed was a real waste and that only the outer layer was what you really wanted to get rid of.

Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.