I nudged him to remember what was surely the best day of his life—when he had walked serenely through the milling throng, moist-eyed, and sheepish grin more skew-whiff than ever, in the starling-shrieking, jabbering cockpit of that tumbledown stadium at Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1981.

[T]he priest or priestess had to learn how to make love charms and various objects to cause enchantments; such as fingers-of-death, hands-of-love, luck balls and tricken-bags, the names of which adequately express their purpose.

Recently, we have synthesized dunniones and β-lapachones, the anti-fungal orange-red pigments of Streptocarpus dunnii Mast ( Khambay et al ., 2003 ).

My uncle knows something about that fellow—Clavering knows something about him. There’s something louche regarding him.