the outbranch is communicated to the peers who wait on the corresponding inbranch.

At press conferences you hear a visiting statesman so eloquent in his own language—and then suddenly he tries a few words in French...an idiot speaking, an analphabetic from some wretched forgotten hamlet learning to read at the age of seventy.

If the customs inspector gets hinky about letting them into the country, you can let him keep one as a gift.

I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.