She can evoke an entire scene in short strokes, as in this from The Wamsutter Wolf: This trailer was in ruins, broken-backed because its west end had slipped off the cinder-block supports. All the windows had been shot out.

In Scotland, one of the purposes of a university education and rhetoric was to rid the students of their Scottish rusticisms.

The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.