Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity. But what may we expect from plenitude?

I grew a mantle of radar, sensitized to the blindsidings and the character-ambush attempts.

When he is shown that he can steal something from the outside man with whom he has already had contact he will say, I don't feel that we should swindle him; he appears to be a nice chap.

But they could not have been asleep! cried Lord John. Dash it all, Challenger, you don't mean to believe that those folk were asleep with their staring eyes and stiff limbs and that awful death grin on their faces! It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy, said Challenger.