Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner 409pp, HarperCollins, £25 In 1444, John Hopton, a small gentleman of Suffolk, sent his steward to Norwich to buy supplies for the winter.
At the end of a winding road sat our house and small gentleman's farm.
On the road, at speed, it's like driving a library, or a very small gentleman's club — if the club could get up on its hind legs and roar like a lion while still maintaining its dignity.
As we said our goodbyes, the second gentleman, a small man who hadn't said anything the whole time, quietly turned to me and said, "We are from FEMA.
The announcer went on, "The dean of the diplomatic corps!" A small older gentleman glided down the center aisle.
"You get 10-to 20-yards extra distance with this glove," a small Korean gentleman tells me.
"He didn't look at all like I imagined him," said Holly, describing a small, elderly gentleman -- who just happened to be Frank's oncologist.
In a world dominated by small-minded "gentlemen," where sincerity of feeling is judged a threat to the establishment, an ethics of naturalness inevitably finds itself engaged in a struggle for freedom.
Of a certain general, Hawthorne observes, "He is a small, thin old gentleman, set off by a large pair of brilliant epaulets".
To the right of the Baroness, a small, bald, spectacled gentleman, who introduced himself to the Time table as the sculptor Armand Arman, stared at the Baroness's diamond ring, nodded to his wife sitting across the table from him, and said, "We call that a fuck-you stone".
But even so… While saying I have more money than you to the small assembly of gentlemen gathered around it (each of them grimacing in the manner of someone experiencing spontaneous penile reduction), the car did also seem to announce but I may be running out of ideas about how best to fritter it away.
