Deprived-eye responsiveness was lost in the extragranular layers, whereas normal binocularity in layer IV was preserved.

to break into a run or gallop

They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

[O]ne minute this Jihadi John was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.