They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.

Mr. Passebon is showing whimsical pieces, like a pair of vintage white-lacquered metal garden chairs that are a confection of swirls and flowers, and more serious fare, like a pair of Napoleon III miniature seats upholstered in blue velvet with gilded faux bamboo legs and low, balusterlike round backs, also carved and gilded, in imitation of beaded fringe.

And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

The term “Alfredian” then is not univocal; it can mean, depending on the argument, anything from Alfred setting down words by himself, to Alfred working with a little or a lot of help in writing or dictating, or to Alfred authorizing another or others to act in his name with degrees of his personal involvement varying from much to nil.[…]Part II contains essays on works that almost all scholars would now agree have no particular connection with Alfredian prose. Whereas Alfredian prose—a phrase used here in the traditionalist sense—has a certain identifiable core that appears programmatic, viz., translations of the Christian classics, the prose outside of Alfred’s circle is somewhat more heterogeneous.