Hescos — antiblast protection consisting of big wire containers of rubble — defy all attempts at decoration.

Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.

The old horse finally kicked the bucket.

It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot, said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.