After revealing the ending, the novel doubles back to introduce the main characters, if not ab ovo, then far back in their uniformly lamentable histories. |
And he was, Samuel, a great hope, a great man ab ovo, his father in miniature. |
Ab Ovo, a leading technology integrator, is the Quintiq implementation partner for the WWL solution. |
His story begins literally ab ovo, as Horace put it. |
Neither the somatic nor the psychobehavioral sexual characters, then, were laid down irreversibly ab ovo. |