But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.

The bishops and priests are spiritual magistrates; and unless their privileges are guarded and their powers unencroached, the body will be dissolved of course, and everything fall into confusion; […]

They laughed with uncounterfeited glee as the narrator told with eloquent pantomime, how he had prepared to receive the punishment of the rod with forty stripes or so, plus as many more as the rod would stand […]

My editor is very finicky about punctuation. Every dot and comma has to be just right.