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the Beef Official stands in the arena itself, his legs apart and his thumbs in his belt, 100% man, radiating livestock savvy. N.C. seems less smitten than decapitated, frankly.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming,” said Billy Pilgrim behind his white linen screens, “just ask for Wild Bob.”
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
He came very near being blown or shaken from the yard, several times, but he was a true sailor, every finger a fish-hook.
Richard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
The Seeker arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Manasquan Inlet at about ten P.M. Each man aboard the boat was taken inside and asked to write an account of the incident, then was released.
Robert Kurson • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
The dead, blind wall butts all inquiring heads at last.
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
He must have gone straight from the warmth of the womb to the awful chill of the jar,