Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world. . . . Cog's mind, similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. There's no there there, notes Brooks with a touch of pride.

He overed the fence in good style.

For the first time since I had glimpsed her across the crowded ballroom I understood how I could have mistaken her for a monial of the order whose habit she wore.

to overcome enemies in battle