A great man […] anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.

A tumble would have had serious consequences. It had been unforgivable recklessness, but also tremendously sexy. YouTube found the graphic documentation of my mesonoxian madness too explicit but it was present on a few other video sites […]

A ſoſſe-bangle; a ſluttiſh, ſlattering, lazy VVench, a ruſtic VVord, only uſed by the Vulgar.

Talbot,I said, you have an opera glass. Let me have it." "An opera glass! — no ! — what do you suppose I would be doing with an opera glass ?