![]() Letters Written While on a Collecting Trip in the East Indies, by Thomas Barbour and Rosamond Barbour, 1913) ![]() Our boat to Singapore is just a few hundred feet away from this hotel and it looks very big and nice." (Rosamond's letter to Bub, Jan. "Amir has just counted our luggage and in all we have twenty-one pieces, counting cameras, guns, bags, boxes, trunks, umbrellas, etc.You are, in effect, a pompous, illiterate baboon." (Leonard Rossiter in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, 1976) The fault lies in your inability to fill in an order form correctly. "Your complaints about late delay are not only completely unjustified, but also ungrammatical.Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet." (Peter Baker, "It's Not About Bill," The New York Times Magazine, May 31, 2009) He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. ![]() On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. ![]()
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