This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle.

Worse yet, they could be stuck raising offspring with a man they despise. I have met some women in their forties recently that I could tag as “manizers.” Still, they are not nearly as ruthless as womanizers are.

Stomacher brooch of brilliants and fine oriental pearls.

A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.