We have to glean the terror from such casually dropped phrases as "Nobody harmed the lovely beasts; many pitied them."

Each time the engineer plays the track, Mr. Richards drops words and phrases into crevices left by the music, using the vocals as just another texture.

Their life became one of allusion, dropping phrases to each other out of books, playing subtle characters without ever allowing themselves to utter the other's name.

He repeatedly dropped Spanish sentences and phrases into the speech.

As I follow them past Security and out into Whitehall Serafin is dropping library books and wild phrases about the metaphysics of desire.

ON one side of the aisle, dropping phrases like "Christian country" and "the real America," lawmakers rued the decline of absolutes in a permissive age.

You've watched friends trotting off to class, toting neon mats and dropping mysterious phrases like "downward dog" and "half cobra."

She will drop perfectly placed phrases against an icy clear background, then underscore them with a hand slicing across her body, or with a flick of her hair.

When it all finally started unravelling, there was at last a chance to drop phrases like collateralised debt obligation into dinner party conversations without someone sniggering.

She did not ask the meaning of the cryptic reference to a saddle; the Characters were forever dropping obsolete words and phrases garnered in their travels.