… there is no permanent division between the guard's section, which contains four tip-up seats, and the main passenger saloon.

The gate was high; it had been a nine-foot drop; she had landed wrong and broken her arm. Oh Jesus Christ, what a fuckup.

In a recent study of Thyris' magical herb in Comus, John M. Steadman concludes that “haemony means knowledge” from Greek haimon “skillful.”

After a while he descended the steps into the road again and he stood there and looked all about him and listened for any sound at all but there was nothing.