Lady Mary turned pettishly away; no woman likes anybody but herself to depreciate a lover; it is personally an ill compliment.

Despite their being multiethnic and multireligious democracies with an entrepreneurial streak, the two countries had drifted apart during the cold war[…]

Stalks of salvias and mint, artemisia and penstemon.

Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum, might approach its utmost boundaries.