Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father.
Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising.
[…] I saw Arnoldi at Dettelbach, standing unhurt amongst the lances and swords, which flashed and glittered around him like lightning; the thunder-boxes peppering away all the while as if it snowed lead; and when the pastime (for it was nothing else to him) was over, there he stood leaning on his halbert, coolly shaking out the bullets, which rattled like peas from his breeches and doublet.
[M]any on the right have found themselves justifying our current president's priapism with the same arguments that liberals once used to excuse Clinton.
Here, we measured CO 2 production (a surrogate for metabolism) in Mediterranean geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) infected with a lung parasite, the pentastome Raillietiella indica, under two physiological conditions: rested and recently active.