In principal there are two metabolic routes for the degradation of transitory starch: an amylolytic and a phosphorylytic pathway.

It felt like Daddy might come waltzing into the room any minute, look around at all the food and people, and say, Whoop-de-doo! What a party!

That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings.

The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming castrum puellarum, becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past.