| 1 | She could now no longer contain herself, and was convinced that some disaster was impending. | |
| 2 | See to a pair the captain is to be fraught with grim possibilities, think of this, my mood is more and more heavy. | |
| 3 | Before me stretched the portentous , menacing road of a new decade. | |
| 4 | Bob broke one of his wife's most precious dishes and is really behind the eight ball. | |
| 5 | They did that a lot in New Mexico, where chronic diarrhoea interrupted my run with an enforced trip to the hospital - my whole run across the United States seemed to be hanging in the balance. |