The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.

The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

For several Saturdays after he'd seen a film about men who lived on the rails, he left home with a Spam sandwich in a paper bag, a compass and a ball of twine (though he wasn't sure why he included the twine).