What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.

At 2,248 feet in length, the pier was designed to meet the needs of steamers, with the town a popular watering-place among Victorian and Edwardian visitors.

Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living.

When it had left the system, the tool-users were in the middle of a spirited attempt to wipe themselves out, which led the frigate to one hypothesis that the biological material the freighter was carrying had been some sort of xenopalaeontology expedition to preserve the species; […]