The Secretary of Defense was a taciturn man, given to telegramlike statements.

An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.

This action of the English Regicides did in effect strike a damp like death through the heart of Flunkyism universally in this world

They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.