Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.

A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

An endocrine gland is one that secretes its products directly into the bloodstream.

Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, […] solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat.