Phantasia, then, is the animal's awareness of some object or state of affairs, which may well prove to be an object of desire. … I am thirsty; I have (in the absence of the object) a phantasia of drink. … Phantasia can also be used to account for delusion in practical cases: Poor dog, he saw that as water (or as drink) when it was really ammonia solution.

In 1979, following Jimmy Carter’s unexpected and unreasonable decision to transfer diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, the Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act to preserve our relationship with this courageous nation. We believed that it was vital for our allies and for those who were not our allies to know that the United States would not abandon its friends.

If two vehicles, both travelling at 70 mph (miles per hour), collide head-on, their closing speed is 140 mph.

[…] just as he leaned over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and, with a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the not over clean ground—for we were now in the cow yard.