We strike up a conversation and for some reason we begin to discuss what a hypothetical world without flowers would look like.
Just before God Save The Queen struck up for him Murray had a stab at Italian with "Ciao, ciao Roma".
As the band strikes up for its second set, couples move back on to the dance floor: some of them look like they've been hovering over Mayfair since the late 1970s, waiting for the dinner-dance to come back into style.
"[It] changed sharply as the band struck up for the march past – and very impressive it is – all officers marching in goose step (which we hate because of its connections but which they still adopt) each row matched perfectly in height.
In a battle between Calvin and Linda, strike up one for Warnaco and its chief executive, Linda Wachner.
We arrived just as eight of them were striking up a classical tune for the benefit of about two dozen onlookers.
The two of them strike up an alliance for survival that slowly turns into something more.
Ivanov, a once-idealistic landowner married to a Jewish woman (possibly for money), strikes up an affair with a younger woman and drives his consumptive wife, who has been disowned by her parents, to death.
Maybe it ceases to be a place where you joust with a blue-haired woman for a taxi at 3 a.m., where you strike up a chat waiting for the train, where you have a guy who sells you your fish, where occasional bad meals underscore the thrill of the great ones.
