Poor monkeys! how I pity them. The only durions they can eat are the overripe ones, which fall from the trees and burst open.

Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion […]

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

Jinx rubbed his head against him and sighed. 'I hate to say this, but I really do think you might be cursed. And when I say “might be”...' 'You mean definitely, a hundred per cent, curseder than a curseder thing.' 'Looks that way.'