The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

May the world never forget the nobility and heroism of all those who stood up and those who died in Tian An Men Square.

Is 'sanitisation' even a word? Let alone one that would be used as the top line of a news release, designed to grab the attention of a journalist or the reader of a magazine? It is - although I confess I had to look it up to check.

There was nothing of that luxuriance of blossom which had hitherto clothed the wood, for there were no hawthorns; but the bog-myrtle imparted its tender fragrance, and the caressing honeysuckle wound round many an ancient trunk, odours exhaling from every fairy-like tube—fit trumpets for the heralds of Titania.