Among the kinds of expressive vocabularies that a speaker or writer may employ are emotional, moral, religious, aesthetic, scientific, technical, logical, mathematical, natural language, and constructed language (such as programming language or indexing language) vocabularies.

When a friend warned Paul Kayser, president of El Paso Natural Gas Co., that his blistering pace would one day make him “fly apart like a watch spring,” the 68-year-old Kayser coolly replied: “Hell, when I die I’ll run 15 years on momentum.” / Last week Paul Kayser increased his prehumous momentum. The Federal Power Commission authorized El Paso to go into a $194 million expansion program, including construction of a 413-mile pipeline from Colorado and New Mexico’s San Juan Basin to the Arizona-California border.

You would not trouble it much, child, returned Lady Anne, pettishly; you know you are the plain one of the family. I do not know what I shall do with you when you come out; you will have no beauty but that of youth.

We often picked shchav, little green leaves that were smaller and lighter in color than spinach, which Mother would later cook into a borscht.