He said President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative and the World Health Organization were considering paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries, but must work out what training and equipment they would require circumcisers to have.

Charles contemplated a rare golden-shouldered parrot, a being so beautiful that its dreamer's face showed a beatific smile […].

Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here? and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.

And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.