But we're not throwing this play just because you and Darby here are blow buddies!" Brandon slammed into Cameron Stern, their helmets cracking together loud enough for Brandon to think he'd gone deaf.

One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.

What, then? asked the porter. Hire a witch-wife to burke him by invultuation, with a waxen image and pins?

Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.