Some aspects of its gruesomenesses — reputedly including a cut in family allowances — proved too Bumble-like for the cabinet to swallow

to fibreglass the hull of a fishing-boat

Planthoppers begin life as eggs deposited in fissures on the surface of their host plant or even beneath the bark.

Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature's nature. Moreland: Pitiful. Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.