If the children are at home, the front yard, creeping unsodded from beneath the porch, is naked and clean. If the children are grown ..., verbena, old maids [zinnias], phlox, and four-o'clocks, crowd each together for space

These divisibility sequences satisfy the same recurrence relations as the polynomials 𝜙ₙ and 𝜓 (see Appendix C).

The train stopped: the slow aisle, still interrupted with outlooking, then the descent among faces grave, decorous, and judicial: …

In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees.