Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]

Can I take a look at the draft you've prepared? / Feel free.

Hence, among the lower vertebrates, the cistron may be diplomorphic rather than cryptomorphic.

Rule-utilitarianism is unlikely to condone torturing a child, but it does imply that the torturing of a child is less evil if the torturer shares his pleasure with other sadists-perhaps by inviting an audience, or broadcasting it on the Internet.