Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.

If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.

a refined style

That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.