Frightened by the noises approaching them from the rear, and apprehensive of the human silence ahead, the five roe deer were halted, their heads high in nervous alertness.

[…] the pinching of the Penis in young Children, upon their Needings to the urinary Excretion […]

As a sealer and whalefisher she had earned fat dividends for Dundee owners ; as the S. Y. Windward she had made history, and helped to found the British colony of Elmwood in Franz Josef's Land, and had been iced up for an Arctic winter in a bay at the back of Cape Flora; and on this trip she was destined (although no one even guessed at it them) to acquire a far more international fame.

'It isn't so funny when it's the other way round, is it?' I snarl, before adding, 'You geeky little squit,' for good measure.