"Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me."

"When, therefore, as will be clear to those who read, the passage as a connected whole is literally impossible, whereas the outstanding part of it is not impossible but even true, the reader must endea…"

"Almighty God will bring the arrogant ones of the world to their knees in the forthcoming days and make them accept the system of the Mahdi. And you will all watch it altogether."

"Try to imagine that Minkowski cube, Ray said, as a block of liquid water freezing from the bottom up. The progression of the freeze represents at least our human experience of the march of time. What …"

"No wonder the lookout was amazed. There were deozens of them, some moored in pairs, others, possibly gun-brigs or bombs, anchored separately, a veritable armada of small ships and there they were, lik…"