These vulcanized hearts, they only become more resistant when you ask for mercy.

[…] but it still contains an excellent collection, some fine specimens of magnolias, asiminas, crataegusus, […] and other foreign trees and shrubs, and is conducted with the greatest liberality.

People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

'I'm a fatalist,' said Mr James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. … James Anderton in his suite of offices on the eleventh floor of the modern glass-and-concrete police building, looking out over his domain, his patch, his manor.