[Y]oung Durward sprung lightly as the ounce up into the tree, drew from his pouch that most necessary implement of a Highlander or woodsman, the trusty skene dhu, and, calling to those below to receive the body on their hands, cut the rope asunder in less than a minute after he had perceived the exigency.

The view with the left should theoretically have been more extensive, that eye having greater altitude at the time, owing to the angle of repose of my head; but although that view gave a middle-ground of pale belly beyond the pubis, the breasts now didn't have the clarity of outline and the subtlety of texture of the previous survey: myopia gave just sufficient blur, after eighteen inches or so, to (ha!) cruden the edge and surface.

The drug store had a small rotating rack filled with paperback books provided by a rack jobber.

Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.