Devereux, indeed, being a fast man, with such acres as he inherited, which certainly did not reach a thousand, mortgaged pretty smartly, and with as much personal debt beside, of the fashionable and refined sort, as became a young buck of bright though doubtful expectations—and if the truth must be owned, sometimes pretty nearly pushed into a corner—was beholden, not only for his fun, but, occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benevolent doles.

He became Mr. Koutsoftas’s koumbaros, a combined best man and godfather to Mr. Koutsoftas’s children, a role in the Greek Orthodox church that is the equivalent of family.

I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes.

One reason why Peter Quince and his actors make such a fine mess of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is they are 'Hardhanded men that work in Athens here'.