[…] my resources against depressing thoughts and languor, amid the tantalizings of society […]

Generally, though, it has been the besequined figure-skating dolls who have most often been permitted to revel in their sexuality.

Today I will transform you into a catapeltic arrow, / and I'll send you spinning like a missile from a catapult. A translation of lines 689–690 from the Latin play Curculio (The Weevil) by the Roman playwright Plautus (c. 254 – 184 B.C.E.).

[Vancouver Island's] long, thin land mass was pushed up from the seabed to heights of over 7,000 feet by the relentless, subductive grinding of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly slipping beneath the continent upon which Canada stands.