Rather than collecting the facts, it was a rush to judgement on the part of the department's leaders.

I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.

The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.

Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, Oh God! Oh God! — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.