I saw you collar the late president's valiseful of boodle.

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.

Grant, captain ... affirmeth that he holdeth no such land, nor is there any land appertaining to the said chapel other than the ground whereupon the blockhouse is builded ... and a little hoppet in the occupation of the ferryman Grey, worth by the year 2s. 4d.