Some of this rubbish had been compacted down into a dark tar, a sediment of concentrated filth, pure filth, filth with no impurities, devoid of everything that was not filth.... On top of this was an assortment of browning marigolds, bits of soggy cardboard (not automatically to be discounted as a calorific source) and freshish-looking excrement (ditto).
The rivet tool may come with an assortment of guides and bits, or you may have to purchase extra accessories for the type of rivet you wish to remove.
As always, the Book Review's Summer Reading issue contains some familiar features: roundups of travel and baseball books, an assortment of mysteries, a bit of comedy and more than a bit of adventure.
When you — well, maybe not you, and certainly not I — think of a high-speed rotary instrument with a depressingly numerous assortment of bits and disk attachments, doesn't the incredible Dremel come to mind (Model 395; $77.99)?
Fashioning tent poles out of tree branches and covering the frame with a tarpaulin and an assortment of bright-coloured scarves and bits of cloth, they sit solemnly on the damp mud, partially covered with a few tatty sacks, that has become their floor.
Then there's an assortment of primitive art – "a good collection of bits and bobs from Borneo" – as well as a variety of animal skins, including a bearskin rug, a wild-boar skin and a wolfskin coat, which apparently starts dogs howling.
Otherworldly threats have taken an assortment of shapes some of them a bit too familiar (as in and John Carpenter's remake of ).
The sashimi set meal comes with an assortment of raw fish adorned with tiny bits of Japanese pickles and artfully placed flecks of gold leaf.
The truffles range from $6 for a box of four to $43 for an assortment of 50; mail order prices are a bit higher.
In the cosmic cast of characters, there are shining stars and an assortment of planets orbiting some of those stars like bit players.
