The influence of the temperature of the Gulf-stream upon animal life in the ocean is very curious. The whale so sedulously shuns its warm waters, as almost to indicate their track by its absence ; while yet abundantly found on each side of it. The physical reasons are doubtless the same which prevent this great marine mammal from ever crossing the equator from one hemisphere to the other — a fact now well ascertained.

Rather less easy to forecast was the appearance of serious cracks and other flaws in the panhouse masonry.

The flowers do not lie so tanglingly thick there; the pathway is not encumbered with them.

Technically the erotic obsession with such large women is labeled macrophilia, but it is more commonly referred to as simply GTS, short for giantess.