When the police arrived she sat up, decently bedjacketed, and answered their questions about missing valuables.

How have I offended you? Twice have I called this morning, and each time you have been peremptorily denied.

When the news of Alvarado's death reached his widow in Guatemala, she called all the alcaldes and regidores to the palace and proclaimed herself gobernadora […]

The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.