Among an unenlightened people every impoſture is likely to take place, for ignorance is the parent of credulity.

The door was standing ajar.

Don't be so doppich, he'd told himself. Now, struggling with the painful ache in his throat, he looked over at Sassy. She was taking dainty steps as she stalked over to the dresser and rubbed against first its wooden legs, then the chair's.

Study participants also drew charts of pedestrian traffic to take note of what are delightfully termed desire lines – paths actually made by walkers as opposed to those created on the drawing board.