The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, Thief!

Izzy tells me that at her high school the most useful distinction is not between heterosexuals and homosexuals but between those who are sexual and those who are not. The abstainers call themselves “aces,” short for “asexuals.”

The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.

That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.