Golding has not set out to appall the reader with horrors nor to harrow him with miseries.

A few strange words carved on a tree were the only vestige of the lost colony of Roanok.

The nurse swathed the wounded soldier's leg in bandages.

After losing the playoff game, the team was crestfallen.

The mother crooned as she rocked the baby.

She laughed contemptuously and said she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going to have any children by me.

Slavery is an abhorrence.

The mountains were shrouded in fog.

After Mary had a baby, she took a brief hiatus from work.