For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.

I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.

[M]any hospitals have essentially abandoned any serious effort to raise funds from donors. They could, like universities, conduct fund-raising campaigns and establish endowments to cover the shortfall caused by widespread fraud (i.e., the false promise by government and insurance to pay patients' medical expenses), but instead they mercilessly gouge their uninsured patients.