The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.

The heart entirely engrossed by one, is the last to suspect it can be the object of preference to another. Vanity, the great enlightener on such subjects, is here lost in a more powerful feeling. She never thought of Mr. Spenser in any other character than as a pleasant acquaintance.

It had been fine all morning, but it was darkening now, the weather was going to get worse.

Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.