It is Miss Halliday! cried the house-maid, as she opened the door. And oh my, she added, looking back into the hall with a sorrowful face, how bad she do look! … Oh, don't she look white! cried a shrill girl with a baby in her arms.

the lobate tails of certain fishes

Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.

1973: Among pulverised heads of stone margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow