“She was full of flaws which with time would evolve into full-blown personality defects.”

“Abruptly, he wheeled Shadow into a full turn, stopped, and yanked his rifle out of the sheath on his saddle.”

“When she squeezed his arm and told him she had two pies in her buggy, he thought he'd died and gone to heaven.”

“January worked harder than a stump-tailed cow during fly time...”

“This time he jerked the appendage from her soft lap and tucked it under his leg, Indian fashion.”

“Poor Almafae hadn't been quite right since the time she'd stuck her head in a gnat ball at the age of two.”

“How could he convince her to join him and hitch her buggy to a star when she was bound and determined to hitch it to a sodbuster's plow?”