to strive against fate

Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

She wears a tacky T.A.R.D.I.S blue cardigan, buttoned to the max, over khaki slacks.

For comparison with other nudibranchs from the family Chromodorididae, but not found in this genus, we also purified the compound aplysulphurin ( 8 ), a major compound found in Goniobranchus splendidus [43 ].