Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…]

She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.

At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.

But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.