in this species, the midlegs are brighter than the forelegs and hindlegs

The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.

1930, John Bright, Hizonner Big Bill Thompson, Sharon Hill Books:

‘You are quite wrong, my love, in your guess at my meaning. What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana’s little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy.’