A glassy mountain range of exposed offices; on a clear day you can look through the windows and see as many as 6,000 coffee breaks at once.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.

The guests are often in key with the décor: beautifully preserved, highly pedigreed and finely burnished specimens of the fin de siècle.

We were renting Dumpsters from (Floyd's) and he was emptying them every day, ... It was costing us (about) $460 per month for the rental and the hauling.

They worked day and night. They were the guiding forces, the heart and soul of making the Humane Society of Manatee a first-class organization. They've done wonders and have saved so many animals.