It also operates as a check on fraud, and, without impugning the integrity of the people involved in oil and gas lease farmouts, the potential for fraud inherent in H.R. 3152 does give me great pause.

“You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.

[…] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters,

Like Byron's seraglio, the boudoir is a matriarchate guarded by eunuchs […].