The basic volcanics are altered andesites, porphyritic diabases and andesites, and various pyroclastics.

You do what I've told you to, no questions asked.

I grip the bike rack with both hands, but then the track gets rucklier so I steady myself by hooking one thumb through a belt-loop on Brubeck's jeans.

Ladybirds, unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.