The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.

A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate (which is the wrong word; moths do not migrate as the zoologist knows migration; they vagrate), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea.

You have just been attacked by the hungries!

He had picked up bêtes rouges in the bush and they were crawling and burrowing under his skin.