Instantly the keen-eyed hawk stooped, or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called rifling, or ruffing it.

I don't know why they keep doing that because we have come to put such sleazeballs into politics and accept their deplorable behavior, behavior that we would not accept from doctors, preachers, lawyers, etc. I think it's reprehensible but as long as the system is the way it is and the public allows these pukewads to get away these things and, in fact, at times applaudes this behavior, it's not going to change.

Vanessa took hold of his hand. ‘She′s a dear friend as well as my business manager and,’ she giggled as she admitted her agent′s greatest flaw, ‘when it comes to her clients, the world′s biggest stickybeak.’

Unlike Taylor series, a Fourier series can describe functions that are not everywhere continuous and/or differentiable.