The main components of which are, from dorsal to ventral, the post-temporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and the postcleithra. […] The cleithra of either side of the body are connected with the pharyngeal jaw apparatus and with the urohyal by the bilateral pharyngocleithralis musculature and the median sternohyoideus muscle.

The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.

“Come on,” Wallace said, loping past me toward the van. “I'll buy you some pie.” Pity pie. That was what he was thinking. He thought I liked him, and he needed to buy me pity pie. Could this day get any worse? I sighed and followed after them.

‘Look at the filthiness of this compound!’