T. Dia. Dico that the pulse of this gentleman is the pulse of a man who is not well. Mr. Dia. Good. T. Dia. That it is duriusculus, not to say durus. Mr. Dia. Very well. T. Dia. Irregular. Mr. Dia. Bene. T. Dia. And even a little caprizant.

Not wishing to lose this great opportunity of being the first to receive Martian signals, we 'phoned to the manager to come over immediately and verify our startling discovery. … A day later a lineman in the employ of a stock quotation ticker agency happened to be working on the roof. … [H]e suggested that we might possibly be troubled with induction from these wires, and that our lead-in would perhaps be better if it ran along the outside of the building. Troubled with induction! In truth, that was the very thing which we had mistaken for Martian signals.

It's perhaps the nichest of niche markets and one dominated by only five shipwrights: Jongert, Perini Navi, Swan/Navtor, Baltic, and Wally Yachts.

She used to buy the majority of her medicines from a local green fairy, but when they were busted, her supply line, like that of many other patients, was cut.