If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.

That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.

Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.

a refined style