A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.

The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”

Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it.

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.