The familiarity of Sydney Smith’s manner does not consist merely in his style ; indeed, the terseness and brilliancy of his diction, though not at all artificial in appearance, could not have been attained without labor and solicitude ;—but it is the result of the blunt, fearless, severe, yet good-humored, nature of the man.

When she reached the crossroads where the trail split, one part of her yearned to head toward the lake.

Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported[…]that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

[A]nd one reason why young Satyajit decided to cut short his study at Santiniketan was his growing sense of the place being ‘an isolated island’ and his desire to go back to Calcutta ‘in order to keep abreast of things’. One of the things he had missed in the esoteric surroundings of Santiniketan was the film-going experience he so loved: ‘to relax in the coolness of a cinema, and lose myself in the make-believe world of Hollywood.’