In particular, it appears likely that these forms had comparatively high metabolic rates and could have posed considerable competition for one another, and especially for similar-sized, nonchewing herbivores (e.g., ankylosaurs or stegosaurs).

We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.

Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.

She told me straight up that she didn't want to go, then surprised me by coming.