Some branches [of the Wolverhampton iron and steel trade] are quiet, a few are slack, but generally they are, for the most part, well employed. The outlook cannot be so well gauged. It only requires a bit of a spurt to give a fillip to several branches, and these would stimulate the rest.

We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.

Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

The Aghlabid state comprised the area to which the wilaya of Ifriqiya had been reduced after 761, namely Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania.