As it was he was fighting the blue-blooded French knights on foot armed with a weapon called a goedendag. The goedendag was a four-foot-long wooden pole with a heavy round steel head capped with a six-inch spike.

Two other machines exhibited by Whitworth… One was furnished with a reversing tool to plane both ways, and called, from its peculiar motion, a Jim Crow machine.

Though Percabeth didn't spend much time in the spotlight in The Blood of Olympus, what little I saw of their romance felt rather clichéd.

On Tintock Tap there is a mist / And in the mist there is a kist / And in the kist there is a caup / And in the caup there is a drap / Tak' up the caup and drink the drap / And set the caup on Tintock Tap.