The Squink isn't particularly fussy about its diet, but has a great fondness for electric eels.

I don't care a fiddlestick!

It is a point of pride to a Beacon Hill resident if he can say that he was born on the Hill or was at least raised there.

Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.