How To Use Lair In A Sentence

It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
Dan and Claire share an interest in ancient history.
Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.

Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
Reflections on Rosemary were given by her niece Claire and one of her great-nieces, Annie.
He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale enclave within Houston.
Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
Tony Blair showed impeccable timing by leaving his job just before the economy went phut. Archive 2008-11-01
In another episode, Sanger directed an actor whose son is another former Montclair Prep basketball player.
The current appeal site comprises only the former lairage fields, lying between the rear of residential properties fronting West Road and factories to the north and east.
Increased exposure and professionalism have dovetailed to produce bona fide stars—people young players can identify with—not least among them England's hard-hitting batter Claire Taylor. Women's Cricket Scores With Investment, Interest
This our last answer we send unto hir with the Lord Ruthven and Laird of Pittarrow; requiring of hir Grace, in plane wordis, to signifie unto us what houpe we myeht have of hir favouris toward the outsetting of religioun. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
His flair and showmanship won new audiences and gained the theatre great prestige.
The leading parts were played by Bill Holland and Claire Howell Daly.
Machiavel, qui aimait la liberté d'une manière éclairée, savait que les hommes, qui se sont réunis en société, se sont associés éminemment pour être heureux, et non uniquement pour être libres .... MACHIAVELLISM
McKinnon looked consideringly at Ulbricht, then addressed himself to Dr Sinclair. SAN ANDREAS
Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
Last year he dispatched troops into Swat and South Waziristan to oust the Taliban from their mountain lair; more recently, he helped the US increase drone strikes. Mumbai spy says he worked for terrorists ? then briefed Pakistan
Claire's always one to lend a sympathetic ear if you have problems.
Most lately, they had discovered evidence that Sinclair had been in Buckie on the night. THE SCAR
Ms Lisa Sinclair of Counsel is instructed by Davis & Co Solicitors
MONTREAL — Contrairement aux fédérations de médecins spécialistes et d'omnipraticiens, le Collège des médecins ne prend pas clairement position en faveur de l'euthanasie. The English Canadian MSM got it wrong re: Quebec College of Physicians and Euthanasia
I am not a fortune teller, but a true clairvoyant, I will help you to find your direction in a way that will leave you empowered and positive.
She certainly claimed to have paranormal experiences, but whether she really believed she was clairvoyant or possessed psychic powers, I can't say.
France play with more flair and inventiveness, whereas England are a more disciplined side.
Interviewer Ryan Tubridy sought the advice of Jon Snow ahead of the interview but was warned it would be difficult to extract anything 'revelatory' out of Tony Blair. Tony Blair interview greeted by Iraq war protesters and Jedward fans
a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Volume 01
Wilco, you are bemoaning the response to Blair… I interpret the show me the links the same as I interpret the Show me the links when a right winger posts some far out “factoidal” information here. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 16, 2007
Ei doresc să-l utilizaţi pentru legăturile sale cu feribotul Kee Claire-Hope Ashitey în afara ţării. Ideonexus.com »2007» martie
«Il neige sur le cinéma», in which he discusses snow in the films of Georges Méliès, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leopold Lindtberg, René Clair, Robert Flaherty, and especially La Symphonie pastorale, Jean Delannoy's film based on Gide's novella? Languagehat.com: THE ONTOLOGY OF NARRATIVE.
The confirmation came from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in congressional testimony last week. Think Progress » Beck calls Bush a ‘progressive,’ says Obama is doing ‘exactly’ the same thing.
He was resistant at first, but soon became a careful dresser and appreciative of his wife's flair for interior design.
CLAIMS of clairvoyance, particularly when they come from economists, deserve a sceptical reception.
He was wonderful to watch for his style, elegance, flair and goalscoring. The Sun
The experience brought out his entrepreneurial flair. Times, Sunday Times
Well, whinges the person who thinks that this is a truly astonishing apercu, Tony Blair listens to him all the time and does what he is told. I don't necessarily agree with all they do but ....
` ` The shirra sent for his clerk, and as the lad is rather light o the tongue, I fand it was for drawing a warrant to apprehend you --- I thought it had been on a fugie warrant for debt; for a 'body kens the laird likes naebody to pit his hand in his pouch --- But now I may haud my tongue, for I see the M ` Intyre lad and Mr. Lesley coming up, and I guess that The Antiquary
Like Sinclair, Tri-County is teaching more advanced skills to students who do arrive on campus better prepared.
Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
He studied continuum mechanics, lunar theory with Clairaut, the three body problem, elasticity, acoustics, the wave theory of light, hydraulics, and music.
Claire and the art students were slopping paint on the walls!
When she felt uncomfortable, Claire would glance down at her birthmark on the dorsal area of her left wrist.
Judges placed high value on entries that demonstrated imagination, originality and flair.
This time, BMW seems to be aiming at 3-series customers who shy away from the larger cars and their lairy image.
But when Blair said that Egypt's transition had to be 'managed' – presumably by the West – so as not to jeopardise the 'peace process', he was only saying openly what Washington believed.
I've always liked the Hilaire Belloc quote: "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
` ` Na, Laird, '' Jeanie replied, endeavouring as much as she could to express herself with composure, notwithstanding she still trembled, ` ` I canna gang in --- I have a lang day's darg afore me --- I maun be twenty mile o 'gate the night yet, if feet will carry me.' ' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
In the distance, horses whinnied as a light carriage clattered across the Clairmallon forecourt. The Dressmaker
The ex-director of public prosecutions has accused Tony Blair of "sycophancy" towards President Bush. WN.com - Articles related to Blair 'happy to be out of race for Europe job'
At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness. Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past
A charge has been made against Cameron that he is just a blue-rinsed Blair. Cameron`s Camelot
About the time of hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while swimming about, in particularly warm localities and in exceptionally fine weather, or on nights of full moon; for the fishes are induced (by the warmth or the light) to emerge for a while from their lair in quest of food. The History of Animals
He feared that by endorsing Sinclair he would alienate the banking and industrial elite, which he was attempting to win to the side of his New Deal policies.
Bringing a set of darts to an interview could be viewed as a warning to lairy journalists to mind their manners, but not with Meadows.
He overcame these and tackled his job with enthusiasm and flair that got results against all the odds.
As Anna and Claire's stratagems become more and more elaborate, Catherine's constant interruptions get funnier and funnier.
Do not be afraid to add a little colour and f lair. Times, Sunday Times
‘Financial concerns are the number one thing hindering me from having another baby,’ said Claire, a commercial property agent.
Plus an unpleasant whiff of effluent as in the previous week's remorseless attacks on Cherie Blair, not for anything she's said or done but for the way she looks.
Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
It’s certainly more compelling than the romantic sublot between Claire and The Flying Puberty Case. Are “Mohinder & Matt” From Heroes The “Bert & Ernie” Of Primetime Television? | Best Week Ever
Burton's flair for image seems always at odds with the story at hand.
He drew long, soft, angry breaths, waiting mute and dangerous inside his helplessness like a beast in its lair.
Sulkily, the publicist moves to the back of the bar but Sinclair is still scowling.
Claire had seen the taxi drawing away.
The sudden cancellation of Mr Blair's trip was due to his heavy workload.
C'est une exposition spectaculaire de musique, ne peut pas attendre de voir plus de vous! Monogrenade - Ce Soir (HD) on Vimeo
Failing to win the support of his housemates, Mike descends from the roof, giving Clair a nasty shock in the process.
I saw you sneaking two eclairs with your cup of black coffee. DEATH IN FASHION
At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
Inside, while you don't get the style or flair of a Range Rover, you do get a sense of utilitarian toughness.
‘I don't think there's been a new design in eyewear since the early Nineties,’ says Claire.
They played with control and flair in the first half, while the second half was imbued with indiscipline and scrappiness.
My makeup had taken Claire the longest because she was not accustomed to working on someone with such pale skin, and kept overestimating the colours.
King, and comes to hold the position of a tenant-in-chief (_une seigneurie collective populaire_). Medieval Europe
The spiv, the showman; Mr Blair promised a brave new world - a shining castle on the hill - very Reaganish... a promise he most certainly could not uphold as there was no hill, the castle was made of papier mache and when the rains came it melted away...... The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the court for having called Walesa a communist-era agent. WN.com - Articles related to More Rain for Britain After Floods
Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe. Public Speaking
A false statement is a lie. Someone who is good at twisting the truth is a lair. Dr T.P.Chia
The labor and the lives of ten thousand slaves had gone to the making of that bedchamber, while they themselves slept in vile lairs like wild beasts. A CURIOUS FRAGMENT
The home was built with an architectural flair and design not often found.
Mr Blair was wearing a black and blue T-shirt, jeans and training shoes, while his wife was dressed for the heat in multi-coloured patterned trousers, a white smock and trainers.
All of these reports focused heavily on the emotional intensity of Blair's speech.
Claire gritted her teeth against the pain, a high, keen sound escaping her lips.
With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the time passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise some mode of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at present resided, without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed no very easy task, since the laird was a very zealous friend to government. Waverley
It was no uncommon sight to see a black man, with nothing on but a _kummerbund_, running away to his lair, with The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Roger Avery directs with a flair for despair.
The fire had come only five years after Upton Sinclair published his book The Jungle, which detailed the plight of the workers at a meat packer's plant.
Our comfort is this: We will live out our lives enchanted by Claire, her spell never broken.
It's sair eneuch, laird, whan we hae to gang at the Lord's call, but whan the messenger comes frae the laich yett (low gate), we maun jist lat gang an 'forget. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
When he turned back to Sinclair, his face was impassive, the Eton sang-froid unassailable. THE SCAR
If a player made a mistake when making their way through a lair in that game, it could mean certain death as they tried to get back and try a different fork in the road.
The artwork on the site gives the game world a decidedly fantasy flair, but also with what could be steampunk elements.
Alongside the advance of the domestic "progressive consensus" that New Labour has created, victory in the referendum will be the third term fulfilment of the Blair premiership and we would, in the process, achieve an irreversible shift towards a more social-democratic Britain. The great "democrat" writes
Il s'agissait du livre américain qui eut le plus de succès à son époque ; en 1837, 15 millions d'exemplaires avaient été vendus et le chiffre atteint environ 60 million en 1890, de sorte que la majorité des élèves et des étudiants consultèrent ce livre pendant le premier siècle d'existence de la nation américaine. Archive 2010-07-01
It was during Frederik's tutorial on seamanship that Claire delivered the surprising news.
After Claire excused herself to run her unspecified "errand" - making Roger shudder only slightly-he and Brianna had driven to the pub, but then decided to wait for their supper, since the evening was unexpectedly fine. Dragonfly in Amber
She regularly flies to the USA to see clients and give talks on astrology, palmistry, tarot and how to develop clairvoyance.
Blair Nimmo: ‘Throughout 2003 we have seen a marked reduction in the number of Scottish businesses failing,’.
Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review
Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick, both 29 note their ages, it's important, were thrilled at the can-do response to their letter which complained that the women's fiction section was "very light, with lots of pink fluffiness and there were no classic authors". There's nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover | Viv Groskop
Then Claire realized the scuffs were only about a day old.
Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her.
And as suddenly as it had started, it broke away as Claire slipped out of bed, dragging the top sheet with her as a loose wrap.
Blair's Deputy PM to be investigated for corruptio... 07/09/2006
Claire totally did not need this.
No, Blair's Britain had a minimum wage, a New Deal for the unemployed and spent serious money on health and education.
Claire recalls sharing a silk-lined stateroom with two other Wrens, with two Wren officers installed next door.
Blair came breezing in ready to tell me about the rest of her day until she saw the look on my face.
He had to put up his truck against the bail bond, but there was just no way he was going to let them keep Blair in jail while he found the killer.
Flair supplies products such as Plasticine, Smurfs, Sylvanian Families, Hello Kitty and Uno. Your Local Guardian | Sutton
Sinclair's first major involvement in intelligence came as director of naval intelligence from 1919 to 1921.
Furnished flair Furniture for the dining area needs to complement that in the living section.
Claire spent the morning in a wicker rocker on the screened porch with a book.
The grand euro-persuasion campaign, complete with unspecified roadshows and jollities no doubt such as further Blair / Brown double-acts, could now begin.
Sinclair received a telegram from a man named George Brasfield, who had lost his job or objecting to the distribution of anti-Sinclair literature. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches from Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
These sound pretty feeble reasons for Tony Blair to flunk the great test of his leadership.
[Footnote 4: A gerfalcon is a large falcon of Northern Europe.] "Oft to his frozen lair Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Claire decided that she must have fallen asleep at the party, and somebody had taken her home.
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Their work has all the usual punch, panache and flair you'dexpect.
ESP refers to telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and in recent years, remote viewing and clairaudience.
In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
I have only recently begun to explore my psychic side, but have been strong in the areas of psychic dreams and clairvoyance.
Most of all, he shows a flair for matching the climaxes in the action with musical climaxes, using dissonance, the singer's virtuosity, or instrumental sonorities to create the sense of heightened emotion.
The fangs are inclosed in a soft, pulpy sheath, the inner surface of which is commonly coated with a thin glairy secretion. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
French commentators, on the other hand, are suggesting that Sarkozy's real aim in "endorsing" Blair was to upstage the Socialist opposition before municipal polls rather than commit Paris to backing Blair for the EU job, for which he has also dubbed Juncker pictured an obvious candidate. It was never going to happen
His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power.
Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds. How Should the West Respond to Putin's Threat?
A more narrowly technical cross-disciplinary effort in Mozambique is Paul J.J. Sinclair, "Ethno-Archaeological Surveys of the Save River Valley, South-Central Mozambique," Working Papers in African Studies, 11 (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, 1985). Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
For dessert they selected a chocolate eclair with vanilla ice cream.
The committee was formed at the behest of Governor Sinclair.
Yes she does, right down to making sure he changes his soiled underwear and keeping his basement lair well stocked with mountain dew and cheetos. Think Progress » Mother of man arrested for threatening Pelosi blames ‘really radical’ Fox News.
Imagine, apparently conclusive evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that a very few gifted individuals are genuinely clairvoyant.
Whether by foolishness or deep design, he dropped the question Sinclair did not want. THE SCAR
In the previous episode during the first dance Claire captures Nate's image as he contemplates a seagull picking at the wedding cake.
I also noted that the interviewer baldly misstated various facts, apparently to get a rise out of Blair, as well as taking a really insulting tone.
I bought a delicious palmier, brioche, a jam pastry, sausage puffs, an éclair, a dozen cookies, a bag of shortbread for my mom and a bag of pastry cheese twists. Bon Ton Pastry, Sun Sui Wah & Tojo’s « I HEART BACON
Popularly called PSI studies, noetic sciences studies the phenomenon of telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, precognition, ESP and OBE out of body experiences. Archive 2010-03-01
After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
In the period since Tony Blair took office in May 1997, anatomies of Britain have been tumbling from the presses in dizzying profusion.
Much has been made of the "lairy, middle-aged" Take That fans on tour. Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen
At Montgomery Blair High School, Francis was academically ineligible as a freshman, and then a third string varsity bench warmer as a sophomore.
Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry
Dr. Sinclair is a child psychologist.
Claire and I are both interested in amateur operatics, which is how we met, and I belong to Gravesend Operatic at the Woodville Halls.
The enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard cattle boats and sent on horrific transatlantic crossings by evil lairds has been shattered in a new study.
I have a flair for composing, and I have a flair for performing and making records.
Labour has reached its current position of dominance precisely because of the centrist policies people like Blair and Brown espouse.
He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
About 150 activists were arrested in Fortnum & Mason despite holding what Chief Inspector Claire Clark described as a non-violent and "sensible" demonstration. Met police are accused of pursuing a 'vindictive' case against UK Uncut tax protesters
He selects an éclair, a napoleon, and a couple of tartlets that look appealing. HOPE TO DIE
Claire describes Kate as a Gemini (in Western astrology — the study of the movements of celestial bodies, a Gemini is a person born under the third sign of the zodiac). "Lost" Viewing guides « Peace Corps: China
Though Id never heard Eau Claire called the City of Bridges, I was both surprised and delighted by this discovery
This album's lairy gloating is made just about bearable because Tinie is, at heart, a nice guy, who – like his most obvious referent, Kanye West – mentions his mum every few songs. Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy
In fact his antics often reminded me of Tony Blair, and for that matter Bill Clinton.
Blair pressed herself closer to him, while her hands glided across the corded muscles between his shoulder blades before lifting his shirt over his head.
His instinct was that of the adept publicist, and his interventions showed considerable journalistic flair. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
During her lunch period, Claire left the hospital and hurried two doors down the street to the P and C Supermarket. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
The committee's unprecedented trawl through the secret world of British intelligence makes devastating reading for Blair.
But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals.
Mr Blair himself was taking a personal interest: the Prime Minister's closest aides were copied in to all the memos and documents winging around Whitehall.
Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo WN.com - Business News
Blair's defiance is possible only because of the unprincipled character of the opposition he faces.
Their work has all the usual punch, panache and flair you'dexpect.
There are bagels and muffins, chocolate chip cookies, eclairs, tarts, Danish pastries, baklavas and quiches.
No jacket was found in the initial searches but in 1986, while Mrs Chamberlain was serving a life sentence, an Englishman, David Brett, fell to his death from Uluru, landing beside the jacket which was half-buried close to dingo lairs. Dingo baby case that divided a nation could be closed at last
Soreness of back of mouth and throat; pain on swallowing or difficult swallowing; coating of glairy mucus on roof of mouth, tonsils and throat; some fever; swelling of affected parts.
“I told the laird this morn that if he truly wished to see ye married, then the less chaperonage ye had, the better.” Much Ado About Marriage
Jacob Sinclair met his death at the hands of a soldier.
The consolation is that Blair was tormented by the encounters. Ed Miliband draws first blood at PMQs
The Carlow scullers did well with a good win for Claire Walsh in the Novice scull with wins over Commercial ‘B’ and Putney to reach the final and a convincing win against Commercial ‘A’.
They sojourn to Claire's new estate and learn that Claire is now a widow.
It is remembered in Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair, the documenter of Unmitigated England's edgier areas. Unexpected Alphabets No 1
Then, he would return the bowl and scuttle back to his lair.
In that same vote, Israel abstained, apparently fearing international interference with their own outlaw nuclear weapons program, and Britain abstained in an act of diplomatic fealty to the “special relationship” between Tony Blair and George Bush. Think Progress » The Pictures of Corruption: How Hastert Used Tax Dollars to Turn a $1.5 Million Profit
Blair was particularly narked by its stinging criticism that his Government had been playing to its masters in Washington.
His stark garage tunes - inflected by house and hip hop - celebrated late-night, low rent Britain in all its lairy glory.
In a randomized, double-blind controlled study of 297 patients at 30 sites, those treated with the Alair device had a 32% reduction in asthma attacks, an 84% reduction in emergency-room visits and a 66% reduction in school or work days lost due to asthma. New Surgery to Treat Asthma
Mark gently removed the hand from his waist and sat up, draping the blanket onto Claire.
Yet, there are enough Labour rebels that if the margin of victory dips below the triple digits and gets anywhere close to 50, the pressure on Blair to give way to Brown will be great.
The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.
Blair is a thoroughgoing scoundrel, who has been prepared to stir up the hornets 'nest of the Middle East (at the cost of enormous loss of life) for personal aggrandisement and financial gain. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
Even Mary Berry's light soft brown sugar is a bit mild – no, what you need here is the dark muscovado employed by Claire Clark and Dan Lepard – although the vast amount of treacle the latter spoons in with it makes it taste more like parkin. How to cook perfect Christmas cake
It is the taint of Eton that makes him ineligible to lead the Tory Party, in the view of some who believe that counterfeiting Blairism is the road to power.
It was true some clairvoyants might be simply tricksters, but that had not been his position and he was sure ‘the whole phenomenon cannot be accounted for on natural grounds’.
Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour. Harry's Place
Enjoy them with Cassis wine of which there are only 14 producers, a heady blend of marsanne, clairette and ugni blanc, and not to be confused with the blackcurrant crème de cassis. Budget wine trips in France
Blair has, it appears, accepted the reality that he can only expect limited successes in return for reverses - or at least stasis - in other areas.
Blair stood at the mirror, redoing her makeup.
Celle des toitures est comme un tapis inégal de vieilles tuiles d'argile claire rehaussé de quelques cheminées. Lettres de ma Terrasse
The two women were on an inspection tour of the Rose Hilaire empire: Baker Street, Bond Street, Knightsbridge and Sloane Street. COFFIN IN FASHION
Yesterday I found that anaerobe cultures were being received by some one in the Belleclaire, and -- The Treasure-Train
Despite competition from shops offering antiques and locally crafted furniture, Fox's Lair came in for the bulk of the publicity.

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