Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.
Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.
The aging “proper New Yorkian” who from the depts of “his” chair in “his” club responded to the story of the unremitting, unsuccessful, and often ludicrous campaign of a flamboyant man of great wealth to crash a top club with “I shouldn’t think any gentlemen’s club would let that bounder inside its doors” is a member of a dying breed.
Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.
Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name
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