With a nationful of prospective Russian teachers in the offing and Annie no longer plagued by nausea, she saw her usefulness to the Graylins at an end.
Bazarov came into his father’s room and asked him if he had a cauterizing stone.
“Yes. What do you want it for?”
“I need it...to burn a cut.”
Now Joe, said Mr. Madrilene. That's the wrong line, Joe, the wrong line entirely.
[T]he stem of a stout young oak or ash tree, into the end of which, where the roots had been rounded off, a quantity of molten lead was poured, making the shillelagh more formidable in such hands than a sword would have been – much harder to parry, and impossible to break.
