The winds blew at their own caprice and there was brailing and loosing of canvas.

Temper your language around children.

It sometimes happens, that when a herd of hippopotamoi are surprised in a pool which they do not consider sufficiently safe, owing to its want of depth or extent, after being fired at for a short time, they will make a determined rush for a safer position

Worse than that, Thomas himself suffered from anatidaephobia, the fear that you were being watched by a duck. As a youth, every time those Aflac commercials came on, Thomas had to retreat to his room in anguish.