Mats of mycorrhizal cabling link trees into gigantic, smart communities spread across hundreds of acres.

He wondered whether penguins could fly. She had wondered this herself sometimes.

The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.

The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.