I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor

To put it briefly, he lacks musical ability

I walked the length of the street

The computer terminals were lined up in one long row

The bedroom curtains have faded at the edges

Bolas are made up of a long cord with two stone balls at the free ends

The iris deeply associated with the Boys' Festival does not have a beautiful flower

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk

To make a long story short, he was fired

I hit my funny bone on the edge of the table

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette

The berries were ripening almost as fast as we could gather them

I planned to say this later on but in Katahane there is no such thing as a 'bit part'

I wrote down his phone number on a scrap of paper

The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states

This dictionary has a preface, not a foreword

Well that's because in fiction that sort of fine detail gets skipped