Tiny carried a bag of nails tucked into the back of his jeans, worn low to show off his tighty whiteys.

The farmer coapplied fertilizer and herbicide to the field.

The light pattern had been reversed as I was walking over from the hospital and now the vast ziggurat was bathed inbright light, while the bench where the idiot and I scrunged cheese through our teeth was in deep shadow.

to precipitate a journey, or a conflict