An avocet has a long, strongly upcurved bill which contains a complex and highly specialized system of lamellae capable of filtering out small food items.
Your father and I hadn't had a real meal in a long time, and I really wanted to make him this beer and rump roast that I had seen on The Galloping Gourmet.
In creating a united Germany in the 1870s Bismarck built what would shortly become Europe's strongest country; but the lands were of crucial significance long before he was born.