Demand for entertainment is more elastic than demand for energy.

[…] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.

There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.

Thou mad'st the spacious vault on high, / And thou, in gorgeous wide display, / Spanglest with stars the deep blue sky, […]