They were for their part astonished, for nobody had told them to expect a pretty woman to dinner, and the Prince suggested an intriguing exoticism with his tarboosh.

But it is chiefly in the interesting family Chalcídidæ that we find the greatest number of species having ramose antennæ.

That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target

[…] what were known as symmetricals, lumps of batting strategically placed, distorting the girls' natural curves to the masculine truck-horse taste of the times.