“The fact that Israelite personal names that appear in the Hebrew Bible are overwhemingly Yahwistic might be put down to a later editing, but the inscriptional evidence suggests a similar picture.”
“It would be possible later on to build a station… as an “observational platform” outside the Earth… The work would be done by men who would float in space by means of rocket propulsion units, the nozzles of which they could point in the required direction.”
“A few days after we moved in, Fin put up some shelves to hold the wax anatomical models he had bought cheaply when the wax model maker’s shop closed down and for the scratched glass domes of the stuffed curlew and fox he had bought from the flea market.”
I’m at work right now, and the only books nearby are some that a co-worker laid on me a couple months ago. She said, “You’re a reader, aren’tcha?” and lobbed these two books at me as though any collection of printed pages was just the same as another. Alone, I shuddered and stuffed them into a drawer to rot. So, that said:
“Besides, she really needed to straighten things out with Wyatt.”
I’m also at work, and the nearest book to me is a work book:
In many respects, she was old beyond her years, having experienced the death of her paternal grandfather, a young neighbor, and her first dog by age four.
Nearest nonfiction:
In practice, there is considerable overlap between these two types of immunity; antibodies can direct or activate elements of the innate system, such as phagocytes or complement.
(The two types are adaptive and innate, if you’re wondering.)
Nearest fiction:
“That’s what gnome ointment is for,” winked the Wyvern.
“He told of that mysterious world of microbes as a new universe, and thought of himself as a daring explorer making first groping expeditions along its boundaries only.”