“Men are all well drilled, sir,” continued the captain, “and have regular small-arm practice […] ”

My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.

In the border of a miniature, the arms of the first owner, apparently a member of the Van Varssenaere family of Bruges (1, sable three daggers proper in bend; 2, sable three sheaves of wheat or; 3, argent vairy countervairy gules; 4, azure six ears of wheat or, 3, 2, 1).

There were three draia — one for luggage, including gifts — and twenty-two pegasi to carry them, plus a dozen more who would fly with them.