But the very palpability of the Hooks' happiness and contentment works against this novel's larger design, undermining Mr. Swift's supposition that this family could be blown to bits by a little revelation about DNA.

There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.

[…] the doctor brandishing his teeth at the word “Titus” as though it were the signal for some romantic advance of sabred cavalry.

It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!