Great men oft die by vile bezonians. A Roman sworder and banditto slave Murdered sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.

“Freshies are being served tonight!” “Freshies?” Christina asked. By the sound of his voice, freshies must be something fabulous, she thought. “Fresh vegetables! Carrots, peas and broccoli!” Dr. Orlav answered with gusto.

[I]n the case of pottery, it [epigraphy] is usually taken to include graffiti scratched with a sharp point, and even painted inscriptions which are made before firing as part of the design of a vase, but not written documents (ostraka), in which pot-sherds are merely used as a material to write on instead of papyrus.

This form, which was inspired largely by Lord Dunsany in his The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth and similar writings, combined the ancient materials of The Arabian Nights with chivalric legend and dragonlore of the North.