[…] Gov. Eliot Spitzer has made New York the latest state to travel down a murky legal road, to a place where laws are made not in response to facts, but to wishfulness and fear.

He winked at Liza, who monkeyed him, holding her own eye shut.

These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.

In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.