We found a cottage of stone, from whose thatched roof a dormer-window, brilliant with flowers, peeped out through the foliage which half concealed the tiny homelet.

A good looking moose working in their café probably was not her father's idea of classing up the place.

Most people nowadays, in this country at least, do not seem to be able to see anything else but money. They would cheerfully sell their souls to hell for it. Quite a number of them, according to the tencent magazines, have already made this Faustian bargain.

One of my correspondents uses the idiolect form nephlings to refer collectively to her niece and nephew, but points out that even this derives from the masculine form.]