Family Tree

Charles L. Fontenay

The yellow sands of the spaceport stretched, glaring and empty, in every direction.

Charles L. Fontenay

Lauria Swept down the spiral staircase in regal dignity, and wished there were someone there to witness her entrance.

Charles L. Fontenay

General Beauregard Courtney sat in his staff car atop a slight rise and watched the slow, meshing movement of his troops on the plains south of Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Charles L. Fontenay

BY CHARLES FONTENAY _It was a race between the tortoise and the hare.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.