"They'd want something 'in writing,' to coin an ancient phrase."
In the true sense of an ancient phrase, I was moonstruck.
"The girl's ship has wings," says the pilot, using the ancient phrase.
There is probably an additional useful message for us in this ancient phrase.
As my service record has established, gentlemen, I am not an armchair general, to use an ancient historical phrase.
The humans have an ancient phrase for such strategy"Divide and conquer.'"
Dispensing the norms and graces of the upper classes, in a king's ancient phrase.
An ancient phrase came to mind: what cannot be cured, must be endured.
It was an ancient phrase used without meaning or magic in the world.
The child murmured words in her sleep, words she couldn't know, ancient phrases of great power.