[…] an ovarium borne on a short stipes within the base of the tube, with a long thread-like style and a beared stigmate; […]

We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth. ... In most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.