As the show opened with the river, singing sirenlike “oooooohs,” the audience settled in.

I came away with two fleas in each ear, Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.

Other mythographers say that […] where the saliva of Cerberus fell on the ground, up sprang the witch-flower aconite – which is a poison, a paralysant and a febrifuge

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