With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

There is slickness in his superpolite Southern charm — the easy, noticing compliments and smile.

The hell you say! rejoined McBane. I'll leave this car when I get good and ready, and that won't be till I've finished this cigar. See?

[Any] of the varieties above mentioned … may have one or more of its rays forked or branched like a tuft. The spicule is then said to be monolophous, dilophous, trilophous, or tetralophous according to the number of rays so affected.