For years they saw each other in full daylight only on Sundays. The rest of the time they spoke or touched or ate in darkness. Predawn darkness and the afterlight of sunset.

as concave […] as a worm-eaten nut

The principle groves of the citri are on the northern and eastern coasts, where the mountains rise in bold headlands from the sea, having but a narrow strip of land in the marine zone, of a loose, sandy character at their base. The soil of the hillsides is generally clay. On the southern and western coasts the citri are not cultivated to any extent, owing principally to the lack of water for irrigation and to the presence of certain deleterious mineral substances in the soil.

After dinner, the Lord Maior and his Brethren in the behalfe of the Cittie and Cittizens of London, for testimonie of hearty welcome and their love, presented the Palsgrave with a very large bason and eure of silver richly guilded ...