At a signal from the captain they stumbled back into line to start the final slog of 780 yards, uphill all the way, taking them to the Dook, and thence, God-willing, to the West Mine.

The beatific face broke into a grin and the man's eyes twinkled merrily, like a woodelf's eyes.

In many programming languages, numeric values are not assignable to string variables.

In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.