The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made.

Very often, the bales have to be subitted to several transshipments and stowings, for which reason the bales do not all arrive at destination in good condition.

[O]thers grumbled, questioning whether this man knew anything about fighting in the desert or was simply a strutting martinet who, once he was confronted with the tactical brilliance of Rommel, would fall on his face like so many before him. Unfortunately, if Montgomery failed, he would no doubt take a good part of the Eighth Army with him.

There was the fresh, turpsy smell of conifers, and from a quarter of a mile away the salty tang of shifting sea water.