They form a shouting, gesticulating, chaffering, laughing, quarrelling, noisy throng, their skins varying from lightest olive through snuff and butter and café-au-lait to coal-black, their bright-coloured clothes making a constantly changing kaleidoscope around the market square.

Then ſayde Peter vnto hym: Periſſh thou and thy money togedder. For thou weneſt that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?

Give me the boy, now, and no more of your jaw. I am going to take the boy home with me.

The telegraph, telephone, and then radio made it easier for governments to intervene in the conduct of military operations, inserting that 'long screwdriver' so resented by modern commanders.