The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall.

Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

Her piteous mooings caught the ear of a hungry old he-bear which was hunting in the woods near by.

These taxa were selected because of availability of nonchloroplast nuclear protein sequences, permitting animal-based calibration.