Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects.

join our lights together, And overshine the earth

On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust.

He would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up.