To accusations that her leap from her prison tower was suicidally motivated, she replies scornfully that anybody with any sense prefers to try for freedom instead of remaining in prison.

Tendon sheaths are the smooth coverings of tendons analogous to an umbrella cover.

We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!

‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.