A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.

As fertile and formally expansive as cyberart was for Hershman, it may be that its anonymity, its mere virtuality, was a distraction...

The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.

Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.