Imagine a book about occupations with a table of contents divided into chapters organized by interest fields, subchapters organized by level of income offered, subsubchapters organized by physical strength required, and so on through ten tiers of classification. This work of classification would be impressive, but would still be helpful only to the user who wants to search using the characteristics in the (arbitrarily) hierarchic order given.

During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.

Many of these expungees achieve immediate reinstatement through the proper fiscal procedure.

Patricia Florca, wearing black market Levis and a dark blue, collarless shirt, snapped open a Ronson lighter and put flame to a black market Marlboro. Lidia Cozma looked enviously at the cigarette's glowing tip. Want one? Patricia whispered. Lidia nodded and Patricia offered the pack. Lidia removed a Marlboro, and moments later both women were sending exhaled smoke toward a cloudless sky.