Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses out the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.

I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles. But my beard was not long then, barely able to brush the hollow above my sternum, and I snatched up the coffer without bodily or beardly harm.

The accused politician was a power-hungry man who broke the law so he could help his buddies.

Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.