"Through the doorway which lead from her receptionist-secretary's office to her own, Catherine Morris Perry instantly noticed the box on her desk. It was bulky - perhaps three feet long and almost as high."
Chap. 1, p. 1

"Born for Water told Monster Slayer to leave Death alive to get rid of old people like me. You have to make some room for the new babies."
Chap. 2, p. 10

"On the Bitter Water Dinee she imposed her rigid rules of peace. Once, she had kept a meeting of two Bitter Water families in session for eleven days until - out of hunger and exhaustion - they settled a grazing rights feud that had rankled for a hundred years."
Chap. 2, p. 11

"'I heard something-or-other,' Leaphorn said - which meant a secondhand report of what had been overheard by the radio dispatcher downstairs."
Chap. 3, p. 15

"The body was under the sheltering limbs...