“Lordy loo, sugar,” she said from her wheelchair, her face all crumpled up like a dried-out apple. “You're going to ruin it. […]

Rather than tackling the entire project at once, work on each assignment piece by piece.

[…] filled with alluvial deposits which finally rose above sea level except at the mouths of the valleys where wave action has been sufficiently strong to carry the sediment seaward and thus prevent the accumulation of deltal deposits.

Nobody half-wheels Bob and gets away with it. Bob kept forcing the pace by trying to ride next to him, and the pace escalated for almost an hour until Jock finally had to drop back.