Lying forward flattened along Sunfish's hard-muscled shoulders, Bud was gaining and gaining—one length, then two lengths as he shot under the wire, slowed and rode back to find a silent crowd watching him.

If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.

The Puritan toleration lasted six years, and included all but Papists, Prelatists and those who held objectional doctrines.

That tie is a bit naff, don’t you think?