Look here, sir, this is all very well, he began, but why can't I fall in love with your daughter? I'm a Doctor of Science and all that sort of thing. I've a perfectly decent outlook. My father was rather a swell in his science. I'm an entirely decent and respectable person. / I beg to differ, said Mr. Pope. / But I am. / Again, said Mr. Pope, with great patience, and a slight forward bowing of the head, I beg to differ.

[…] by presenting us with another term (the definer) that has the same meaning as the definee. Moreover, a definition does not merely give us a single word that is a synonym of the definee: Liberty means the same as freedom.

Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.

I sang it through, Rumpty tumpty toddy man, as Granda thumped his blackthorn stick against the floor and everyone laughed.