It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

Me, happy as a piss clam at high tide, workin' as a busboy in a deli afternoons and nights, other odd jobs during the day.

Stone (personal correspondence) has suggested the use of the term flagellomere, on morphological grounds, instead of the usual segments of the flagellum […]

In gathering up the goods of producers the car-load is the common unit, and yet an iron-bound rule in a national statute touching the commerce by rail of 100,000 miles of road, comprehending movements of freight where grain by the elevatorful, coal by the output of a mine, wood by the acre, or sand by the hill, might work inconvenience where the exception would be sanctioned if no monopoly was created against the smaller car-load dealer.