Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.

This male auto-mimicry of stinging females is energetically costly and would be very unlikely to have evolved if it were not effective.

I lifted the circular operculum from its place and laid it carefully on the bale.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:custodes regni.