Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.

Such was the abundance of Nummulites throughout the length of the Tethys that in many places their remains formed a distinctive kind of rock called nummulitic limestone which, since ancient times, has been much favoured for construction.

An other type of diprotamine contains arginine and histidine: the percine [from the perch, Perca flavescens] belongs to this group.

Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.