Like those marked with the tonsure, which had undergone no damaging operation, they proved only that their time was finished.

Mutilated or intact, they could do no more on account of age, and their absence meant nothing.

Owing to the delay inseparable from the experiment, the part played by the antennae escaped me.

It was doubtful before; it remained doubtful.
My prisoner under the wire-gauze cover lived for eight days.

Every night she attracted a swarm of visitors, now to one part of the house, now to another.