He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

School girls who are kept on a scanty diet are apt to lapse menstrually, and should be put on a more nutritive dietary regimen.

Jerzy watched the two of them, coming to Agreement over the flickering tendrils of spellfire, and felt something twist in his gut.

an inferior officer