Now those who had scurried from the beaches in June 1940 were returning across the Channel with a veritable armada.
These setbacks, all in the last year, have once again left Mylan with a veritable run of the market.
The commercial ends with a veritable tidal wave of red soup covering the entire screen as these words appear: "Add some Plus.
Cul-de-sacs beckon him, competing with a veritable chorus girl line-up of Dev's comely maidens, dancing for all they're worth.
At first sight it was the Teutonic bloc centred on Berlin with a veritable diktat: no debt relief for Greece, no "haircut".
Their steamed dumplings are slathered in oil, with a veritable pool at the bottom of the dish, and dusted with sesame seeds and scallions.
It's a stunner in its way, with a veritable galaxy of globe lights the size of beach balls dangling from a high ceiling.
If it is an unusually nasty spring, and the first great day comes only in mid-May, it coincides with a veritable lilac orgy in the arboretum.
And it entered the field with a veritable litany of handicaps: no stars, a little-known playwright and a daunting running time of more than three hours.
It came with a veritable Mount Everest pile of buttery rice and an assortment of carrots, zucchini, green beans and broccoli (unadorned and boring).
General William Howe newly arrived in New York harbour with a veritable armada - upwards of 30,000 fresh, well-trained troops, including the storied Hessians.
