At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.

The talk in their little hamlet in the province of Cosenza, where the Lanzas had been known for generations for their fine castile soap, played up America as a place where accidents of birth didn't doom you to a lifetime of serfitude[…]

Of the cATBAD patients, 68 of 174 (39.0%) were treated medically, 52 (30.0%) were treated with open aortic surgery, 37 (21.3%) were treated with TEVAR, and 17 (9.7%) were treated with other open peripheral vascular procedures such as axillobifemoral bypass and femoral-femoral bypass.

The corn, or fruit, at the top of an oat-stalk is not generally termed the ear, but the rizom; and in old heraldry it is sometimes blazoned an oat-stalk, bladed and rizomed.