The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)/15=15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.

The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.

the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner

a rapid stream