The giraffe piano was made during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century, and was named from its obvious resemblance to the well-known animal.

She thought of the painting in the shop, the pentimento. Her life, the one she had so carefully planned for herself had crumbled like the paint on the surface.

From Honolulu we went to Pago Pago in Samoa. We saw there how an educational revolution could be brought about on a Pacific island by the use of classroom television.

[…] until, in obeisance to Elizabeth, they voted themselves the jailers of her victim Mary Queen of Scots; and from their jailering the history of this house has been one of religious and political versatilities.