In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.

A thirty-second of 640 is 20.

The nymphs first hatch out in a sort of safety suit that wraps all their limbs close to their body (at this stage they are called a 'pronymph'), they then work their way slowly to the surface pushing through the soil or foam above them with the help of an expanding sack in the top base of their necks […]

With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her destiny;...