I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.

A better method for dealing with efflorescence on masonry is to coat the offending surface with a parge coat of plaster. This is a plaster material that is slightly softer and more porous than the masonry. As the moisture flows through the masonry, it continues through the parge coat and evaporates from the surface, but the salts remain behind in the parge coat.

Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it

He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.