"That's good," I say, a tiny note of panic in my voice.
But as my babies let out that startled wail there was always a tiny moment of panic: what if I'm wrong?
After dropping a fly into the tank to feed the "tiger-striped archer fish," Roy looks on: "…And yet there was the fly, mired in the water, sending off his million tiny ripples of panic".
The archer fish tensed up, danced in a fluttering circle with his hooked lip at the surface the fulcrum, followed the mad flight of the fly with quiet deliberation, and spat his pellet of water with such celerity and yet so little movement that it seemed not to have happened at all, and yet there was the fly, mired in the water, sending off his million tiny ripples of panic.
Bosses at the tiny Jersey company panicked and rang Panama.
A couple of contestants had panic attacks after a tiny swim, and why?
This was an altogether grimmer, more cloying, bleakswept city of tiny menaces, long-held lies, angry panic.
Faced with a self-proclaimed "rebel expeditionary force" intent on setting up an independent state on the island, the Japanese authorities lurch between paralysis and panic, sending in a tiny, ill-prepared anti-terrorist unit that only makes things worse.
While most of us have not had panic attacks centered around "tiny Jewish hats," surely we can understand the fear of not being accepted.
This probably explains the whiff of panic that followed China's tiny, but totally unexpected, devaluation of the yuan.
