A palindrome reads the same backward as forward.

The trade of Greenland is a strict monopoly of the Danish Government, and accordingly the Government puts a cheek upon any trading or fishing within a certain distance of the coast. It does not, however, prohibit the sale of small articles not used in their trade, here commences a curious traffic with the natives, known to the Scottish whalers under the name of troaking.

[H]e brought with him money enough to purchase the small estate of Monkbarns, then sold by a dissipated laird to whose father it had been gifted, with other church lands, upon the dissolution of the great and wealthy monastery to which it had belonged.

And he needed to find that little rat-fuck Jimmy Dunne to find out why some bitch had been in his local bar asking questions about him, and how she had connected his name to Katie Jones.