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.

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

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.

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