I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.

However, the recognition of sea-floor spreading made sense of continental splitting without having to invoke earth expansion.

What, if you like, could be more sensational than the fact that the ancient island of Cythera, sacred, as Lemrière says, to the Goddess Venus, who rose, as some suppose, from the sea, near its coasts, has been quite happily governed for three months by an assembly of islanders under the presidency of a local lawyer ? But the papers prefer to go on flogging the same old dead donkeys.

After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.