There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.

[W]hile children will tend to watch things that adults do not want them to, TV’s isolative effects are a greater danger.

Stripped to the waist, in a straw hat and stubbies, he was driving in marker-posts with a hammer.

We cited a goodly number of synonyms, some of them may seem superfluous, but I thought of linguists interested in phytonymy.