But if he does, the old king's face will be gleaming with a new waxy sheen.
Little red welts pepper his legs and arms, some dulled to a waxy maroon, others just plasticky-white scar tissue.
It is this kind of detail that I remember – the credit card, waxy and oiled along its edge – from our expeditions into the hills.
As PM Directs go, this one was probably more direct than most as Cameron found himself rather closer than he had bargained for, as the audience was within touching distance of the prime minister's rolled-up sleeves and waxy forearms.
Smith's exposed skin is covered in waxy scars.
My teenage years were largely spent gagging on waxy, watery, bile-tasting brews dug out of strangers' parents' drinks cabinets at 2am as a last resort to liven up terrible house parties.
They would prefer a much smaller facility, consuming perhaps 30,000 b/d, with the balance being pumped across neighbouring Kenya to the Indian Ocean.Mr Pearmain points out that Ugandan oil is waxy, and so likely to solidify in a pipeline unless heated.
Pointing at the waxy reptile, a guide says, "You can see even the animal kingdom bows down to the Great Leader".Inspecting gift horsesWhen useless and inappropriate gifts continue to turn up in future, courtiers and diplomats ought to apply a new pragmatism.
Instead, they saw cracks that zigged and zagged across the surface as the waxy "plates" separated.
Deprived of their waxy coats, the victims die rapidly of dehydration.The idea has proved effective in some rich-world grain silos, but Tanya Stathers, of Greenwich University in England, wanted to see if it would work in the smaller-scale and rather different conditions of storage found in the tropics.
With precipitation ranging from 30 to 100cm (12 to 40 inches) a year, the chaparral's native plants rely on small, waxy, evergreen leaves to conserve water by limiting transpiration.
