Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’

The dentistress who, unwomanned by her victim’s feeble cries and the ashen pallor of his contorted visage, abruptly burst into tears, scampered from the surgery and locked herself in the attic, would very soon be drummed out of Wimpbeck Street by the Amalgamated Society of Dentists and (Pneumatic) Drillers. “Nor is that all. … What if the tender passion (if I may coin a phrase) should come stealing shyly in, to mar the dentistress’s aim and suffuse her damask cheek with a coy blush whenever she inserts a gimlet in Somebody’s ailing fang?[…]”

No matter how lacking he may be in other portions of his contour, this fore-handed formation and action are absolute prerequisites.

Not only did the Dublin barkeeps not make a shamrock in the foam, they claimed to not even know what a black and tan was.