Spelling bees, science fairs, and geography fairs can also be organized through a support group.

Silcote, you are making a rod for your back in your treatment of that child. She'll live to break your heart for you.

Indeed, he transforms his superior into the very personification of gluttony: “... he was fat, oily, refined, rotund, heavy, ponderous, weighty, massive, cyclopean, a giant in body, broad-chested, deep-bellied, fat-buttocked, his eyes set wide apart, with a jutting forehead, a ferocious countenance, commanding of respect, with a good shock of hair and a bull-neck.”

The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed.