Pasquier […] admired and promoted the mandarinal administrative system.

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

There it stands, hard by the tributaryless Nile, whose dark and violet-coloured waters form so indispensable an adjunct to the prosperity of the land.

A novelist can run on and on (and, alas, does!). He can perversely take twenty words to describe the Apocalypse and fifty pages to chronicle the hero's shaving, and still be endurable, because the reader can always slap the book shut and continue it only when he is in the mood.