She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

ExPEC includes the subpathotype avian pathogenic E.

...which are involved in the system of superbackground stresses, caused by the decompaction of material of the asthenosphere and by the products of their degassing, and which are limited by the dimensions of subvertical ascending flows of endogenous gases and water and their mixtures...

The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.