Highly incensed at this treatment of their standard, the removalists flew to their arms, […] .

The liver should be regarded as the main food-processing plant. It is the metabolic stabilizer (metabolostat) for the body.

Once Kate reached one of the fancifully carved towers of the palace, a liveried footman led her into an octagonal banqueting room, richly furnished with a round table surrounded by cushioned stools and crossbacked chairs.

I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.