The Legend of the Firefish

She[Talon] laughed. "I have killed, and I have given life. I have saved you, and now I will kill you. No God will do this. Just me."
He[Packer] shook his head. "I put myself in His hands, Talon. Not yours."
And now the moment had come. A single thrust, and it was over. Proof would be hers. And yet, what would he do with a sword through his chest? What would he say? What look would be in his eyes? She saw in him now the same determination she had seen in Senslar Zendoda, the same fearlessness, the same focus, the same sadness, the same power. And yes, that's what it was.

I love this book, the first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy, by George Bryan Polivka and it is one of my alltime favorites. This scene was one of the last, and one of the best. The main character, Packer Throme, loved God, and after overcoming many obstacles, realized that all outcomes were in God's power. No-one else could change that, not Talon, an evil witch warrior, not the Prince of Nearing Vast, not the pirate captain, Scat Wilkins, not even the legendary Firefish. Everything and everyone was in God's hands, and that would never change.

PS: words are part of the adjectival and adverbial clauses.

Silk

"Natural silk, as we all know, has a strength that man made materials have long struggled to match... MIT researches have discovered that silk gets its strength from its weaknesses. Silk gets its extraordinary durability and ductility from an unusual arrangement of hydrogen bonds that are inherently very weak but that work together to create a strong, flexible structure.

"To get a better understanding of how silk manages to produce such strength through such weak bonds, the MIT team created a set of computer models that allowed them to observe the way silk behaves at the atomic level. They found that the arrangement of the tiny silk nano-crystals is such that the hydrogen bonds are able to work cooperatively, reinforcing one another against external forces and failing slowly. When they do fail, [they fail in a way] so as not to allow a sudden fracture to spread across a silk structure."

That is so cool! I enjoy this type of stuff. God created such amazing creatures, like spiders(which I personally don't like), that can create silk. God obviously knows what he's doing when he creates creatures, and doesn't just do it at random. Who would have thought, a hundred years ago, that scientists would be looking to silk as a model for the next updated thing. How could a spider have evolved enough to create something like that? I don't believe it could have. It's just incredible, awesome, and mind-boggling.

Gulliver's Travels

In the right coat-pocket of the great man mountain after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your majesty's chief room of state. In the left pocket, we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we the searchers were not able to lift. We desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the mid leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to our faces, set us both a sneezing for several times together. In his right waistcoat-pocket, we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked with black figures...

This started the long list of Gulliver's inventory as seen by the little people of Lilliput in chapter 2.
Rewrite:
In the right coat-pocket of the great man mountain after the investigation, we found only one segment of coarse cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your majesty's chief room of state. In the left pocket, we saw a silver trunk, with a cover of the same metal, which we the searchers were incapable to lift. We desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the thigh in a sort of dust, bits whereof flying up to our faces, set us both a sneezing for several times together. In his right waistcoat-pocket, we found a mass of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a chain, and marked with black figures...