Patient: ...too much is bad for you. Doctor: Well of course too much is bad for you, that's what too much means, you blithering twat. If you had too much water, it would be bad for you, wouldn't it? Too much precisely means that quantity which is excessive, that's what it means. Could you ever say too much water is good for you? I mean if it's too much it's too much. Too much of anything is too much. Obviously. Jesus.

About this time a large gole of horsemen came on towards me, and I proposed to charge; but as they turned at once from the fire of the guns, and as there was a nullah in front, I refrained from advancing after them.

Far ahead of them, Merle saw the war galleys of the Pharaoh, tiny as toys. […] The same ships had already—at the beginning of the great mummy war—set loose the first scarab swarms in all the leading countries.

Mr. Brown is touchy about accusations that he is a packaged candidate, and bristles at the suggestion that Mr. Caddell pulls his strings.