inspection

The whole estate was like this: a glance gave the impression of lavish wealth, but closer inspection told a different story.

Alexander and the other children had laid their clothes out on the beds for Penelope’s inspection.

In only a few hours’ time, she and the children would line up outside the POE for inspection by the admiral, with their rucksacks strapped to their backs and pith helmets fastened beneath their chins.

Close inspection revealed that the door was marked with the faded numerals one and seven.

But then a pre-raising inspection of the sunken vessel revealed that most of the nails in the planks inside the ship had corroded during the more than four hundred years it had been submerged.