They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

Voiture carried this talent to perfection. His letters were charming—full of point and flattery; and his conversation sparkled with bon-mots and compliments.

[…]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;

The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.