Still feeling the buzz from the coffee, he pushed through the last of the homework.

In the very first place, cultivate a “loose-handed” way of hitting the ball— the arm should never be rigid and should snap the ball rather like a willow withe than strike it stiffly, as with a baseball bat.

He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]

Past hope! past cure!