I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!

As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.

He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.

In God's name, what do you think you are you doing?