For example, differences in the execution of some nonvirtualizable instructions, such as SIDT, SGDT, and SLDT, allow inspection of the privileged state from the user-level.

Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.

He from the world had cut off a great man, / Who in his time had made heroic bustle. / Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, / Booze in the ken, or at the spellken hustle? / Who queer a flat? Who (spite of Bow Street's ban) / On the high toby-spice so flash the muzzle? / Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing), / So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing?

As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.