When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of sut from off the back of the fireplace and a gaum of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.

[…] due to the trend, in recent years, towards the milling of more sophisticated materials such as Nimonics.

[…] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.

Its nasty sting backs up the warning, and in the case of the cow killer, additional warnings also come in the form of sound, a squeak of broad frequency range that resembles a miniature rattle of a Lilliputian rattlesnake, and an odorous chemical warning signal.