It might have been a good thing if he had, unsuited as he was physically, but the mood passed easily under fraternal dissuadings and a feeling of duty toward his father.

But it’s not unfair if the accusation of beigeness, in that great red Hunger Games set of a room, is allowed to take hold.

It was hard to tell the twins apart: they even spoke identically.

The morse [i.e., walrus] is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, … Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in his animal; …