| 1 | After innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to my fortification. | |
| 2 | He glanced at Ruth for reassurance, much in the same manner that a passenger, with sudden panic thought of possible shipwreck, will strive to locate the life preservers. | |
| 3 | So it threw me for a loop when I saw him walking into the movie theater with that stupid girl who sits next to him in biology class. |