The soil slumpage due to fluid removal and to explosives used in seismic exploration cannot always be mitigated.

[E]ven these would be infinitely disordered to find the economy of their apartments deranged by an unlucky kitten, almost faint at a broken pane, and be absolutely taken ill of an everted coal-box.

But even wooden limbs get tired/ And want a change of play/ So Golliwogg/ A jolly dog/ Suggests they run away.

The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.