Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...

Wisdom was preëxistent; the Messiah was preëxistent; wisdom was the Law. With this set of ideas Paul started on his prologue to the life of Jesus. But he introduces into it one significant change. In the then current Jewish belief, the preëxistent wisdom and the preëxistent Messiah were two distinct incorporeal beings, the former being the preëxistent Law to be revealed through Moses and the latter the preëxistent redeemer to be born of the house of David.

The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.

As an alternative to the axiomatic approach, affine geometry can be studied via the properties of affine transformations, which do not, in general, preserve distances or angles, but do preserve alignment of points and parallelism of lines.