Gillian reached for the comm link, but the carrier wave cut off before she could say another word.

“You still look faint, my dear,” condoled Mrs. Sylk. “It is the motion and smell of this hideous train. How it rocks! […] ”

[Owen Weingott] had after all choreographed the first mass duel in cinemascope for Byron Haskin's Long John Silver.

Twiti's discussion of hunting deer with bow and a pack of greyhounds (or “stably”) to drive them past the waiting archers is similar, for example, to that in Gawain and the Green Knight, and such hunting practices are referred to in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The Franklin's Tale.