These insects rely heavily on crypsis, and as the black faecal pellets on bright green leaves do indeed serve as conspicuous indications of the presence of the defaecator (students used as 'potential pneumorid predators' soon learnt to use these signs).

Not that our poorest white groups would claim to feel any such privilege. Indeed, the simple fact of their underprivilege and how bad they are doing is being ignored by the national conversation […]

By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow, cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.

Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.