… three 2-4-2 tank engines were secured from the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds. As the line began on the Quay in Bideford, the locomotives had their motion encased, as shown in the illustrations on page 414.

I suppose thatʼs what I first loved about Marpessa, her unabashed inappropriateness.

I believe these simple, crude noticings on my part must parallel the beginnings of systems of augury.

If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.