Skill can replace numbers.

I will go and swap the Carlovingian crown at Daddy Medicis'.

Is there not anything else saleable here?
Suppose I take the plaster cast of the tibia of Jaconowski, the Russian drum major." "Take the tibia.

But it is a nuisance, there will not be a single ornament left here." During Marcel's absence, Rodolphe, his mind made up that that party should be given in any case, went in search of his friend Colline, the hyperphysical philosopher, who lived hard by.
"I have come," said he, "to ask you to do me a favor.

As host I must positively have a black swallow-tail, and I have not got one; lend me yours." "But," said Colline hesitating, "as a guest I shall want my black swallow-tail too." "I will allow you to come in a frock coat." "That won't do.