[…] he sought to charm a single pair of ears, and those more hairy than critical. Later, as the race went on humaning, there grew complexity of sentiment and varying emotional needs, […]

...the prosecuting attorney referred to the defendant as a “murderer” in one instance, and in another as a “redhanded murderer.”

They borrowed a female [cat] in an interesting condition and set their trap under the cypress tree at the top of the vacant lot.

he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports