When the even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devylles ….

Every school under the management of the school board of a parish shall be deemed a parish school, and every school under the management of the school board of a burgh shall be deemed a burgh school, and all such schools are hereby declared to be public schools within the meaning of this Act.

The flurry of adnomination (varying a root term with prefixes and suffixes, as luminous, by a kind of home etymology, is turned into voluminous) — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...

The gamekeeper was slower to smooth himself down than Solomon; who showed much good-temper, setting himself to make up for a little cantankerousness, in fact growing to be friendly.