Thus a coal stratum found in one locality may not be exactly on the same stratigraphic level as another found not far distant, but both were laid down during a period when the general depositive conditions were the same; […]

Bart Blandino . . . refers to himself as a Mediterranean Irishman—an expression which never fails to amuse us.

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

the simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility