There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutter s up on the outside.
Then he looked at his wife's little round black head and felt very proud of having her as his own. He leaned back on his elbow and took her hand in his.
In 2005, she recited the numbers of pi, the mathematical equation describing the proportions of a circle – but how many digits did she manage to remember?
He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone" dumpy, " when his own son, Dudley, had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall.
John said that if the worst came to the worst, all they had to do was to go straight on, for the world was round, and so in time they must come back to their own window.