Vincent: A please would be nice. / The Wolf: Come again? / Vincent: I said a please would be nice. / The Wolf: Get it straight, Buster. I'm not here to say please. I'm here to tell you what to do.

Naval power was the foundation of British and Dutch empirehood.

The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids excessive bail, and state bail laws are usually designed to prevent discrimination in setting bail.

And there were birds, mostly brown and gray with some black and drab, although once Cory saw one that was as green as the broad field of legumey stuff on their right.