Recurrent planetquakes would have made mining too hazardous, which could account for the Romulans' departure, but so could many things on this inhospitable world.

Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness.

Such a halt would enhance any model railway, perhaps leading to a fiddle yard on the right.

But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.