A year before my return Elwood had swapped his old truck for this draggle-tailed creature. He was pleased with the deal—a whole mule for a broken-down truck that had to be removed from the farm in several hundred rusting pieces.

One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]

Scarlet red is an aniline dye which has been used in the treatment of wounds and ulcers since the beginning of the past century.

And now by means of those worldly Lectures, which he had by my direction so gravely, and effectually read unto me, I became such a Proficient in Mammon's School, as those who long time had been nursed and nustled in it, could not come near me in the Practical part of a Worldling.