I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids, Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, there are so many pretty kinds.

Painstakingly negotiated agreements governed many aspects of international relations; the doctrine of pacta sunt servanda dictated that those agreements be obeyed.

They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers[…].

Several senior railway engineers reached the IMechE pinnacle of being appointed president: Sir Vincent Raven (1912), ….