After all, if these measures could've succeeded, they would've been implemented five years ago when the world economy hadn't yet hit the skids.

She threw forward her arms, as if with spear and buckler. Miss Barfoot was smiling at this Palladian attitude when a servant announced two ladies, Mrs. Smallbrook and Miss Haven. Athena, a goddess associated with warfare, is often depicted in art wearing a helmet and wielding a spear.

[The National Assembly] has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts, Brigand expeditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates.

The nervous and vascular centres are raised in standard: the whole muscle-system is augmentedly developed, and the secernent organs are woven into more complex structures.