If, however, any two or three gentlemen, whose general knowledge of languages and of their analogies is such as to qualify them for the office, will undertake to be judges, I am ready to meet any Ægyptologist of the Coptic school whom Chevalier Bunsen may select, and to submit our respective systems of explaining old Egyptian texts to their decision.

One of the particularly annoying practices and one that surely contributes to many accidents is angle parking in small communities, parking too close to intersections, and double parking, especially on through streets or trunk lines through these small communities. […] In driving around the state I find many communities have eliminated angle parking and substituted parallel parking in its place. This is fine.

Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle, And beside him Old Redcap sly; — Now, tell me, thou sprite, who are meikle of might, The death that I must die?

Who do you suppose get acupunctuated better, a Tibetan yak-herd or Chairman Mao?