The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops.

He got a custard danish that had sat around too long and a cup of builder's, ate the cake while he waited on hold for the bank.

When some half dozen of bakers' dozens of constables are to be created, is it not very tiresome that a magistrate shall sit in an easy arm chair, in a snug room, and before a roaring fire, whilst the oath is read to each, and whilst each kisses the book, until the moisture of their breath has saturated with damp, the sheep or calf skin in which the book is packed up? There is something very tedious and unpleasant in all this, and great praise is due to the steward of Squire Screw, for having invented the means by which such annoying forms may be set aside.

Being real and whole and bodyful; turning pages, greeting women who are Hat and glossy, magazine-slim and dressed to kill budgets and men's eyes; breasts of a perfect no-size with hips to match; hands that spread wings and fly in colours like birds, and feet that perch and piont in heels and leather, or perfect pink and brown barefoot footprints in some Caribbean sand.