Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

MCO reniform, quadriloculate, with comparatively long arcing cone; walls of chambers variably thick; distal tube short, with comparatively thick walls; retractile filament variable in length.

This time, my host asked me if I was part of LinkedIn, a buzzy Web site intended to link people with similar business interests.