The ceiling was so high overhead that he could not see it, only long fingers of rock that depended out of the dark like icicles ... melting icicles, for they dripped with water shose mineral content -- the rich tang of iron and limestone freighted the cold air -- had accreted into slick stone fingers on the cavern floor that reached up to clasp what had given them birth, a many-handed infant grasping for its many-handed mother.

There was onenun in particular, Sister Francesca, who seemed to harbour a faint uncomplicity, which might, if not nipped in the bud, burgeon into doubt itself.

The sentence It will rain tomorrow is falsifiable, while the sentence It is what it is is not.

There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training.