The puppy room in the basement brimmed with youngness, with suckings, cuddlings, lickings, squirmings—puppies whose eyes were sealed against seeing, puppies whose ears were sealed against hearing for the first ten days of life […]

the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog

He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.

I'll put together a quick one-off as a sample so we can taste the recipe.