In this chapter, I'll try to present examples in a more Perlish style of Perl.

Gómez Arias, like don Álvaro, dies without our feeling a batsqueak of regret because neither is given any redeeming features.

Here, it is said, MacDonalds of Glencoe hid their lifted beasts when retribution threatened.

Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore.