In some women it is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere; […] .

Twain and Salinger's common genius, Heiserman and Miller suggest, lay in their masterful use of a colloquial American adolescent's voice to convey their respective childism, by which they mean the nostalgic wish to recover our inner Adamic child.

Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days / To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, / Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.

He never once took her name in vain among the fellows: and she had not been a very good girl, either.