The curtains of his office are still closed, but a soft, warm light filters past the bodyguards and into the room. It drapes his face, smooths the sharp lines of his new gauntness.

The helicity associated with the writhing number is obtained by observing that a torus with twist number ±1 may be distorted into a figure-8 configuration which appears untwisted. […] Note that at each step the total helicity, consisting of the sum of twist, kink, and link helicities, is conserved.

O honor, farre beyond a brazen shrine, To sit with Tarleton on an ale post's signe

Paresthesia occurs when a body part 'falls asleep'.