"This is where we set it up," Brad explained tersely.

"Rain is free," she explained tersely when my son asked about the bucket.

One young man, lean and spare with a blond crew cut, explained tersely: "If the wind is strong, well, it can be difficult."

"Someone crimped the line with a pair of pliers," he explained tersely.

It might make a solution similar to the ocean around us," Tom explained tersely.

'One of them got him as he turned,' he explained tersely.

"To retain air around the ship, and keep us from being swept under," Liriel explained tersely.

"We have to get there first," he explained tersely.

'The obstetrics and gynaecology team will take over from here,' he explained tersely.