Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.

George’s sponsor is Lee McFarland, founder of the modernistic institution that bears his name, and the applicant’s principal recommendation was his special affinity for small dotted sexahedrons which will probably be mistaken by most of the members for some kind of pornography.

The car raced full-bore into oncoming traffic.

The Heilungkiang River which the Russians call the Amur is rather narrower than I had expected it to be, and the old Chinese town of Hailanpao, now the Russian one of Blagoveshchensk, is dominated by a television tower.