... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.

During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard.

Nearer at hand, on both sides of the road, are grape arbours and fig-trees in first leaf; groves of cumquats and olives; tobacco plants under wigwams of polyphene; sago- and phoenix-palms; infant melon vines, and vines of sponge-gourd, the luffa Aegypticus from which bath loofahs are formed; fields of buckwheat being weeded by peasant women gloved to the elbow like so many Yvette Guilberts; fields of calendulas, the current craze for ikebana; bonsai farms with special hospital plots for ailing plants; loquat-trees with their clusters of unripe fruit already wearing protective snoods of rice-paper; long greenhouses of tomato plants; longer sheds for fowls being fattened for yaki-tori restaurants, and the rôtisseries of supermarkets; patches of purple milk-vetch grown to lure the bees needed to fertilize nearby essential crops; Chinese cabbages and taro and broad beans and cooking-chrysanthemum and shallots and parsley; and many pines but no cedars because cedars require much more rain than Kagawa gets.

...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...