Vertebral structure is critical for the identification of fossil snakes, because vertebrae are among the most easily fossilized parts of ophidians.

They don't seem to want to work to earn a living. They think they can make money out of thin air.

It is to be remembered, too, in saying that the child imitates such familiar onomatopoesies as “bow-wow” (French “oua-oua.”), “tic-tic” (French “tic-tac”) from the nurse, that the nursery tradition of employing these sounds is probably the result of a respectful attention to the spontaneous namings of earlier generations of babies.

As for Janie, she stood there, petrified, and now her face had become as ugly as sin, and as vicious, and as malevolent.