Gil guarantees, with the truth of art, that neither internet, videopoker nor cellular phones have really destroyed it […]

Caleb said all butchers generally ended up this way because of the undertakerish sort of life they had to live.

to hold one's bladder;  to hold one's breath

Dental characters have proven to be of little use as there is no Paleocene tree shrew, which would show more primitive tupaiid dental characters. From the dentition of living tupaiids, one would easily infer that all of them have derived characters that prevent them from being ancestral to primates, among which [are] specializations in their dentitions or molar characters in tupaiines (see Butler, 1980).