Were those baronies proclaimed at the time you were in them? –Some of them are; the barony of Duhallow is proclaimed.

If you're smart enough—in Bauer's rationale—you don't have to check on the results of your smartness. It was this curiously blind sense of superomniscience that had brought about all of the man's eventual fiascos.

There was a lot of snagging at first, of humpies too tired to resist, of deadfall trailing limbs in the water, but after a while Gregor caught and by a miracle landed a two-pound rainbow and everyone began fishing in earnest.

By junior high, where every forty-one minutes the bell signaled a four-minute parade of hyper-hormoned bodies through sweat-scented halls, Gayle, with her long hair, clear golden skin, and high, tight curves, was, no contest, the finest girl. She made it her business to look cute every day so she'd be noticed by the boys and envied by the girls.