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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.’
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Often if an accident happens to a gentleman’s legs, they can be mended; but if a similar accident happens to the legs of his pantaloons, there is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.