In the stormy 15th and 16th centuries, Lucca's proserous silk merchants preserved the peace by intercepting enemy armies and paying them to bypass the town.
Silk merchants used to preserve the peace by paying enemy armies to bypass the town.
The silk merchants weren't arounf muvch in the 15th and 16th centuries.
He was not invited to Toronto.
The group of people is having a picnic
The man is eating lunch.
You would never think that a taste for such ascetic modes of enjoyment would be as effective as a diet strategy making people fatter.
A man is working while standing on a ladder.
The girl is dressed in blue.