He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.

The duties of an Irish land agent comprise a great deal of office work, drawing up agreements with tenants, receiving rent, superintending agricultural and all landlords' improvements, sitting as magistrate and representing the landlord when the latter is absent at poor-law meetings, road sessions, and on grand juries.

The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.