The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.

[…] the Spy was deceiv’d rather by the Art and Subtlety of Ulysses, than by his Falshood.

John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. You look all jazzy, Tyler said as he approached his partner. I got you a cup of coffee.

That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things Who shut their coward gates on atomies Should be call’d tyrants, butchers, murderers!