One had done time at Mount Penang and the other had been at Yasma Boys' Shelter, so our backgrounds bound us together, which was just as well: the cell was very small, with three beds, a three-gallon shitcan and no plumbing in a space about the size of the bathroom in an average Sydney terrace.

x=(-b±√)/(2a) is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.

On the contrary , a large percentage of them are traumatic ; in other words, they are induced by the habit of picking the nose for the purpose of dislodging a mass of inspissated secretion, which is apt to accumulate at the apex of a sæptal spur or over an area of atrophied mucous membrane.

And here comes the princess now, stepping from her limousine, flanked by musclemen, caught in a fusillade of clicking cameras.