Activity

Biographies were stolidly installed around the room, each of them as heavy as a cinder block.

A few plangent inhalations, on Avenue B

To go gently, with, perhaps, a modest but timely apothegm on his lips.

a court so rich in excrescences and asperities that his choice of groundstroke—forehand or backhand—necessarily depended on the ball’s right-angled bounce

The floorboards hummed and tickled shod feet with the work of the hidden hypocaust.