they were neither necessary to be explicitly acknowledged, before they were convincingly revealed, nor simply and absolutely imposable on any particular man

Batmanning was voluntary. McPherson was a bit incensed about the loss of his batman, but he made do with somebody else.

Dragged suddenly before a formal dinner honoring the women's dean of Toledo University, he wowed his audience with a sight gag—he kissed the guest of honor.

Many lizards, including the British common and sand lizards of the family Lacertidae, clamber over rocks with great agility; none matches the geckoes, some of which can run up, down, or across vertical glass as easily as most beasts run on the flat, and indeed can happily traverse ceilings.