Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.

But upon hearing the Honour which he intended her , she fainted away , and fell down as Dead at his Feet

[…] for that he believed he could shew me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.

Overwriters sometimes have an endearingly sincere rationale: “I want to make writing that's pretty. […]