But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.

But there seems enough evidence to suggest that the merhorse may possibly be a distinct and genuine species. The creature is described as […] but there was no reappearance. A local expert was of the opinion that it was a 'real sea-horse'.

He was a big old rake, full of marks and scars, and he had only an ear and a half.

The St. Louis model also seems to perform well without the large number of extraneous variables—oil prices, coal miners' wage rates, the stock of used cars, etc., all of which tend to contribute to the cumbersomeness of the megamodels.