At one of their literary dinners, should a crumb get caught in the luxuriant Fields beard — There's a gazelle in the garden, Jamie, his wife would say.

To deliver out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions, of whom this hardhanded, earnest witness, and writer, is here representative.

The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.

The shareholders objected to the stock offering as dilutive, leaving them with little or no leverage.