The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.

“I don’t think it’s credible to state that the city should reswear officers who were already sworn in,” Mr. Wright said.

Nica handed Mark a pirazhok. Maybe from the extra excitement, maybe because the pirozhki really were delicious, she swallowed them both immediately.

Some simple facts and terminology about well-orders were already given in and just before 1.8.4. Here are some more: In a well-order A, every element x is clearly of just one of these three kinds: x is the first element; x is a successor element - i.e., x has an immediate predecessor; or x is a limit element - i.e., x has a predecessor but no immediate predecessor. The structure (∅, ∅) is a well-order.