That world-stirring consequences could flow from an act so casual and trivial as securing a fishing rod never entered his innocent and pre-occupied mind.

He did not know that in the hasty calculations of Townsend all the component parts of this system of props and fetters were necessary one to another.

He removed the brick and the cathedral fell and there followed a catastrophe compared to which the World War is a mere incident.

If he had pulled the north pole out of the earth the sequel could hardly have been more momentous.
Sublimely innocent of the fact that he was unhinging the universe, Pee-wee arose, advanced to the outer pole and began tugging on it.

It did not come up easily for the force of the rapidly ebbing tide caused the island to press against it like a brake.