Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meanness,—of brutalism and bravery.

You know you should get up but the thought of making your way to the bathroom to wash is like a trojan task. Why bother?

Completely perverse of me, but I adore Denise Richards in TWINE -- in the Bondverse, of course Denise Richards is a nuclear scientist.

You take a good deal for granted, my young Prusssssian ," rejoined the sectionary, pronouncing the word with a prodigality of s's which attracted the attention of half a score of idlers to the traveller.