The plastic fishing lure was remarkably wormlike.

Tracer entering the blood from the upstream end of the tissue has a higher probability of reescape into the tissue than does tracer entering the blood from the downstream end of the tissue.

He pauses, as if hesitant to mention the godhead of computer design aloud, and adds, Maybe even something Apple would be interested in.

It might be mistaken […] for the work of some modern architect, built for the Nabob of a couple of generations back, who had enriched himself when the pagoda-tree was worth the shaking.