Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.
“Pretty smart chap, that,” muttered the Wise Man as he sauntered off.
“Positive, chump; comparative chumpier; superlative, chumpiest: that’s my definition of him,” concluded the Fool as he resumed his favorite pastime, that of making faces at the cigar dealer’s wooden Indian.
The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
