A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.

For this house we agreed to pay three hundred sicca rupees, or thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, a month.

[T]his brand of ecstatic meditation, shared by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, has struck a chord with record-buyers, and works such as The Protecting Veil (1989) for cello and strings have achieved cult status and huge sales on disc.

[…] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing.