From one of the upper buttonholes dangled a thin gold chain, supporting a bunch of small charms against the evil eye, a little coral horn, a tiny silver hunchback, a miniature gilt bell, and two or three coins of gold and silver, besides an Egyptian scarabee in a gold setting.

'I have a job in hot bread shop. In a hot bread shop. I think I have enough English for the hot bread shop. You think?'

One veteran ball-goer imperiously asked, “What's to remember?” implying that it was just another night at the Plaza.

In Napier's Scenario, major impacts occur in the dying days of the supercomet when most of its ice has gone, at which point the rest of it disintegrates into cometary asteroids.