These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
thanne wexeth he slough and slombry and soone wol be wrooth […]
Having with a great show of combination, varied with puffs from his ever expiring cigar, completed this effort of genius, he chatted away incessantly on all kinds of subjects, never waiting for my remarks, but continually asking questions; and then suggested our taking a turn through the cafés chantant.
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