When students start their freshmen year in college, they are taken care of by their sunbaes, who give them various advice about school.

As pay was Lady Anne's object, and poor Georgiana was intended to be the amanuensis, should she be found capable of forming sentences out of disjointed hints, and of wrapping foul facts in clean composition.

Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

Oases, or distant smoky blurs of saksaul trees, appeared like moments of remission in lives of misfortune—rumored, hallucinated, prayed for, not always where they were supposed to be.