"Crucifixions, human sacrifices, and every horror the eye could get accustomed to, to a large extent, but the smells n…"

"Every person who was able...indulged in a human sacrifice, and those who could not, sacrificed some animal and left t…"

"Altars covered with streams of dried human blood, the stench of which was awful...huge pits forty to fifty feet deep …"

"The size of a deterrent force must be related to the value to an enemy of the prize being protected. For example, sup…"

"When our President first telephoned to Greece and suggested that I should have the great honour of saying a ‘few word…"

"[the sale of his two trunks from the Harrods Depository] 'still aches sometimes, like an old wound in wet weather'"

"Germany! . . . I could hardly believe I was there. For someone born in the second year of World War I, those three sy…"

"Here's a riddle to change the subject: what English catch-phrase, indicating someone is better than he seems, would a…"

"THE INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE. This came, usual thing asking for money. Poor Archbishops, I thought, fe…"

"It was one of the ones I knew! I continued from where he had broken off:nec jam sustineant onus, Silvae laborantes, g…"