Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.

That morning on which Mr. Neville was starting I saw Jim standing by my wagon and cutting up tobacco on the disselboom.

The idea of the dual kingship of Upper and Lower Egypt is shifted from Horus and Seth to the Two Ladies, written (nbty), a clear reference to the vulture goddess Nekhbet of Upper Egypt and the cobra goddess Wadjet of Lower Egypt. … This sets up a paradigm of complemetarity between the king, ruler of the Black Land, and the queen, who is a manifestation of the Two Ladies as the Two Lands.

[..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.