" Harry, you need your strength, " said Seamus Finnigan. " Seekers are always the ones who get clobbered by the other team." " Thanks, Seamus, " said Harry, watching Seamus pile ketchup on his sausages.
If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduce by half again.
During the life of any heart, this line keeps changing place: sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish.
This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.
There are good wells of fresh water, and fruitful soil, and timber for building, and fish in the lagoons; and the other men of that world have not yet discovered it.
Government statisticians use models to adjust the raw data for seasonally recurring effects, such as extra-strong retail sales in December or slack construction in the winter.