Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead.

Many the tears silently wept over the manifold follies of a life so estranged as his had been, when the evil seducings of the tempter had drawn him away from home and love to mingle in the unhallowed society of the intemperate.

Estiatoria are very similar to tavernas but tend to be simpler and less expensive, perhaps more traditionally Greek.

We had been already five weeks in Savagedom, among sands, deserts, and scorching sunshines, and, to say the truth, we had had enough of it.