When he returned from the war his parents had moved, leaving no forwarding address.

Even with the wild current and profusion of debris hitting the boat the gamblers refused to leave.

The inmates' argument as to exactly what the white whale in Moby Dick represented ended in a full-scale prison riot.

The potentate realized too late just how subservient he had become to the ballerina.

Clara was as lonely as a carnival before sundown.

The sunset couldn't come fast enough.

Some days he would catch himself thinking about his father, now alone and slowly dying in a decrepit rest home, but would never find the time to visit.