The noise of the ship was all around her. The faint subsonic rumble of the reactor and drive. (Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey)

He made special mention of three things — the glory of ocean, the perfect ' Mysore bonda ' of a caterer then largely patronised by college youth and the unstaling pleasures of the tram.

I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.

Specializations in xenopsychology and -psychiatry, and longterm experience as CMO of the Enterprise— thus an acquaintance with what amounted to a gestalt life form, for that defined the multi-racial, multi-species environment aboard the ...