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One police officer was coolly dispatched as he lay wounded on the sidewalk.

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.

At the sight, Felipe flung himself on his knees before her; he kissed the aged hands as they lay trembling in her lap.

Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.

Sometimes the child lay so still that Aristide arose to see whether he was alive.