A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

With typical courage she had taken hold of her life and changed it for the better. She always was a brave little toughie, and now her courage had paid off.

Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random. Translated from 超新星纪元 by Cixin Liu, 2004.

Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.