Yet he could eat very well, speak without difficulty, and was very cheerful.

He had with him all his family, composed of two pretty daughters, who looked all the prettier in their national costume, and of seven sons, every one of them a soldier.

This lieutenant-colonel stood six feet high, and his figure was magnificent, but his scars so completely deformed his features that his face was truly horrid to look at.

Yet I found so much attraction in him that I liked him the moment I saw him, and I would have been much pleased to converse with him if his breath had not sent forth such a strong smell of garlic.

All the Albanians had their pockets full of it, and they enjoyed a piece of garlic with as much relish as we do a sugar-plum.