My last, least offering, I present thee now.

These microorganisms, horizontally transmitted, are chemoorganoheterotrophic bacteria housed in bacteriocytes within the roots that degrade the organic compounds sequestered in the bone.

An unutterable nausea oppressed me; I was conscious of gasping; there seemed no breath in my body.

Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.