Their universe is disrupted when one of them gives birth to "a monster", so called on account of the "ugly" bundle of "bumps and lumps and the thing like a pipe which is sometimes called a sea squirt".
Tonight he left his office, where he works with eight people, six of whom think his name is Ahmed, one of whom calls him Smaug on account of the only thing she knows about him coming from the team-building exercise where he expressed an interest in dragons.
On account of the hump, midword capitals are sometimes called "camel case".
Born in Venice in 1678, the Red Priest (as Vivaldi was called on account of the red hair he was born with and the religious orders he took as a young man) was long associated with that city's Pio Ospedale della Pietà, the ensemble of musically gifted orphan girls he trained that became a top tourist attraction.
Then, after befriending sidekick "Red" Kelly (so called on account of the colour of his hair and the fact that it sounds a bit like Ned), the action moves to Scotland, resulting in death, violence, the obligatory mad scientist unveiling his preposterous scheme, and a very satisfying ending.
Heraclitus, the Ephesian, who, on account of the obscurity of his writings, was called σκοτεινὸς by the Greeks, maintained a similar doctrine in respect of fire.
Unless, that is, the unwary hiker stumbles upon Stinky Bay – so called on account of the large quantities of foul-smelling vraic (seaweed) that wash up there every day.
Though each suffers greatly on account of the relationship, neither seems psychologically able to call it quits".
He closed himself in a tiny air-conditioned office, decided not to be photographed on account of the heat and made a long phone call.
I read the whole thing over a couple of times, and I'm now reasonably certain that this is the R.W. Madden I went to school with, the fellow everybody called Eggy on account of the astonishing shape of his head.
I read the whole thing over a couple of times, and I'm now reasonably certain that this is the R.W. Madden I went to school with, the fellow everybody called Eggy on account of the astonishing shape of his head... View Article By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar.
