The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.

The Mande people say that in the beginning the creator placed various kinds of seed in the world egg.

You can't uncultivate anything, in the same way you can't uncook your food.

It was the time of the plague at Messina. The English fleet had anchored there, and searched the felucca I was on. That subjected us to a quarantine of twenty-one days upon arriving at Genoa after a long and troublesome crossing. They gave the passengers the choice of undergoing it on board, or in the lazaretto in which they warned us that we would find only the four walls, because they had not yet had time to furnish it.