In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies, greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls.

[…] jumped him, as it were, and immediately rubbed him down with the view of getting possession of his weapon.

The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.

Around this facet G looks like an exagon (diagram 1).