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Theseus in the last analysis isn't much of a mouse. The explanation for his smart behavior lies in the relays, which move him around by means of a motor-driven magnet. They remember all his successful moves. So when he makes his second trip, the relays whisk him without an error along the correct path...
...maid service depends on each man. If neatness is your weakness, rest assured that there will be a place for everything and everything will remain there. If you like to live in a state of cluttered order, the deft mop handlers can whisk every speck of dust away and never disturb one half-full whiskey bottle...
...starched collars and shiny black shoes. Young Masai warriors, their headdresses bristling with the manes of lions speared in single combat, impatiently jangled the tiny metal rattles girding their ankles. An R.A.F. corporal dropped to his knees and gave the red-carpeted steps of a nearby dais the final whisk-brooming...
Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
...Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf...