To determine the proper course, Americans must take the long view.

I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood.

Bears are flat-footed animals.

(Since most of our horses have Monday off, when they're stiff we say that our horses are feeling “Tuesdayish” even if it happens to fall on a Friday.)