The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.
suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.