“ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.

“You trifler!” Mrs. Armstrong was meanwhile saying. “I want you to talk seriously on this subject. It is high time that you solemnly attended to it. Do you mean to bachelorize your life out? […]"

[F]rom the hall wherein the mourners died / A grey wolf glared, and o'er his head the bat / Hung, and the paddock on the hearth-stone sat.

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.