Birational geometry amounts to the study of mappings given by rational functions rather than polynomials.

Estonia and Latvia were themselves permeated with the Bolshevistic poison and were far too weak within to have any strength without.

I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea.

Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.