'What did you just do?' Sunshine asked. 'Did you just kill a moth?' / 'No,' he said. He glanced at it then flicked it off. Shimmering dust filmed his skin. […] / 'Sometimes you are such a ratfink jackass,' she told him, throwing his hand down, some of the shimmery dust on her own fingers.

The first thing that came to her awareness was that she was alone in the borrowed bed, wearing nothing but her skimpies.

we found the bones and ashes half mortered unto the sand and sides of the Urne; and some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones.

2001: The 606th compound was one that contained arsenic and was called arsphenamine. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 9)