Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona. […] Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders.

The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.

They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.

...not a street of show poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is show iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks...