Pictures of planets and moons are usually presented as globoids.

This strange wool-bearing plant is of the mallow tribe. … Another name formerly given to the vegetable fleece was bombast. This word was in use before our ancestors were skilful enough to weave the cotton wool which was brought to them from the East in the merchant ships of Venice and Genoa. What they did not want for candle-wicks, they employed in stuffing and wadding their doublets and other articles of dress.]

To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets.

The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.