These he had given to the little girl, over the howled protests of the officers and despite repeated blows from a riflebutt in the small of his back.

As a person who is absolutely terrified of snakes, I think I am perfectly positioned to comment on how terrifying king cobras are. The answer is pants-shittingly.

Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech.

The General stares into the sandstorm churned up by all that movement. Like a curtain draped across the world, tawnying the October sky.