I admonish them, therefore, to be more spareful in their diet, and so they shall gain health to their bodies, and comfort to their purse.

He wore a cream-colored linen suit of a cut and color designed expressly for garden parties, the kind of suit Tom would surely have called poncy had he seen it on another man.

Assisted by the boys, whose heads were shaved in a cristated fashion truly ridiculous, and large pariah dogs with bushy tails, they drove the beasts and carried the colts […].

The black clouds threatened heavy rain.