The women, tatooed, painted, carmined, noseringed, bespangled, grotesque, and yet each wearing the invisible cloak of native dignity, a heritage of the desert, bore water in jars on their heads or shoulders from the river.

The extreme Indophobic discomfort with the connection of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin was exemplified by the conviction of the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, who, without knowing a word of the language, proposed that Sanskrit was not a cognate of Greek, it was Greek.

The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not particularly inhumane.

Are you telling me now you didn't mean it, that you were talking- and he stopped and looked at me. It was a look like to include me or uninclude me.