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“Both marks were formed by single pen-strokes named virgulae, the diminutive of the Latin virga for "rod" or "staff", or even, in medieval slang, "penis".”
― Keith Houston, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks

“While this allowed us to see much farther than in the fog of the previous Day, the effect was oppressive, as if all our Movements were taking place in some strange Ballroom set in a deserted Arctic Mansion with a shattered White Marble Floor underfoot and a Low Grey Ceiling with trompe l’oeil clouds just above us.”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

“Always she had sought a life utterly without stress, without contention. She acknowledges no duty to another, no responsibility to anymore but herself.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“They fought one with the other till all fell mortally wounded, the Great Duke of modern days alone surviving; when a new character rushed in—a doctor, with a nostrum to cure all complaints; and applying it to their noses, with some words of a cabalistic character, which sounded like, “Take some of this riff-raff up thy sniff-snaff,” he set each dead hero on his feet, ready to fight another day.”
― Anonymous