In the same way that a shared driveway between two houses turns what is technically half a driveway for each house into practically a whole driveway for each, so in covalent bonds, the electrons in the outer shells of the atoms are integrated into one another’s orbitals so that, for all intents and purposes, each involved atom has in its outer shell eight electrons.

She seems to take the shotgun approach to holiday shopping, buying many smaller, generic gifts for everybody.

The memory for matters that they think about constantly, or, as I might term it, the circumscribed memory, is very acute, as it is in the paranoiæ.

Jupiter Covenanted with him, that it should be Hot or Cold, Wet or Dry, […] as the Tenant should Direct.