The offices in back, honeycombed with semipartitioned cubicles of wood and glass, are a paragon of Collyer brothers’ pack-rattery.

The prerequisite warm-up to the match was ignored.

The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.

A ridgeline is a long area from which the surface drops away steeply on one or two sides, such as a bluff or precipice.