Bark beetles are small and cylindrical with a large prothorax covering the head. - Small Woodland Creatures, L-H Olsen et al. (OK, I'm in the library, that book's on the nearest shelf to where I plugged in my laptop.)
"Adter I'd finished reading the newspaper I shoved it inside my sweatshirt whee it served two purposes: it kept me warm, and acted as a nipple guard." Rebuilding Coventry by Sue Townsend
Now, lying in the ditch with Billy and the scouts after having been shot at, Weary made Billy take a very close look at his trench knife. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five p.27
"King Big-Twytt knew something was going wrong when his Queen came in with green teeth, a bald head with mushrooms growing on it and her dress on fire." Sir Nobonk, And the Terrible, Awful, Nasty Dragon [Spike Milligan]
"She came close to me. I could smell the new leather. The glove was tied with string, a softball in the sweet spot like a large pearl inside an oyster." Cruel and Unusual - Patricia Cornwell, page 210
"None o' your business! You keep your head shet, and mind y'r own affairs -- if you got any." Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.
"Cut or stab with knife; seek to defeat by underhand means." Sounds like a good read, I might get into this! The Concise Oxford Dictionary, p.597
Till then I live here in the crypt with Nelson, who, Langby tells me, is pickled in alcohol inside his coffin. - Connie Willis, "Fire Watch", in The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, vol 1.
"Philosophers are often correctly accused of indulging in armchair psychology (or neuroscience or physics or...), and there are plenty of embarrassing tales about philosophers whose confident a priori declarations have been subsequently disproved in the lab." Daniel Dennett, "Consciousness Explained" p.464
"Titus is seven - his confines, Gormenghast; suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were on webs of ritual." Mervyn peake - Gormenghast.
"It's interesting to note that drinking vinegar has become a national pastime in Japan over the last few years, with average monthly sales at Uchibori's six fruit vinegar stalls jumping by 10% in two years." - Vinegar: 1001 Practical Uses, Margaret Briggs.
First, Williams challenged the prevailing endorsement of group selection, the notion that adaptations evolved for the benefit of the group through the differential survival and reproduction of groups, as opposed to benefit for the gene arising through the differential reproduction of genes. David M Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The new science of the mind, p.15
He was in the situation of a chess player who cannot avoid checkmate and is forced to resign. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The process works much like Windows 200 but is not as straightforward. A printer can be set up locally, or a print server can be set up to handle all the printing requests and to forward those requests to the appropriate printer." The Linux Daemons section of my Cisco IT Essentials II book.
"Now she was left alone in London, obviously pregnant, to face friends and household cares while Godwin vagabondized [sic] as far as the Wedgwood home in Etruria, Staffordshire, writing long and deeply affectionate letters it is true, but delaying his return in a manner that produced panic in Mary". - The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, Claire Tomalin.
"Let me not be misunderstood, I do not mean to suggest that subaltern counterpublics are always necessarily virtuous." - Nancy Fraser in Calhoun ed. 'Habermas and the Public Sphere' p124
