The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

The petrel is a bird not much unlike a swallow, but smaller, and with a shorter tail. It is all over black, except a white spot on the rump.

The places that would never be seen except by the people who worked here, they decorated just like they did the rest of the house.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.

The party pretty much spreads throughout the entire house, except in the bedrooms. But there are people in the living room, outside, in the kitchen, in the kids' play room, all over.