The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

Nevertheless, we do not recall that it was a newspaper which gave currency to obsolete words like “commensals” or extraordinary ones like “vastated,” or called a woman who lives in New York a “New Yorkeress,” or described a man as having a “plangent” voice, or referred to a table-d’hôte dinner as being “prefatorily furnished” with olives.]

For Dr Andrews' was the Londonian chapel in its perfect type, definable as accurately as a Roman basilica,— an oblong, flat-ceiled barn, lighted by windows with semi-circular heads […]

First therefore was he employed into Poland, where by Sigismund, the king of Poland and of Suecia, he was received with great magnificence and applause both of the Polack himself and of his people.