there are only three rectilineous and ordinate figures , which can serve to this purpose ; and inordinate , or unlike ones , must have been not only less elegant and beautiful , but unequal

He easily comprehended, that the noise which he had heard was occasioned by his having loosened a chain which attached the image to its pedestal.

He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.

I can only lament his unmelting coldness to my wife and children — James Boswell.