To beare my Ladies traine, leſt the baſe earth / Should from her venture chance to ſteale a kiſſe, / And of ſo great a fauor growing proud,

Many early-1970s leftist evocations of sexual violence instead developed claims made by left-wing critics of France's violent campaign to crush the Algerian revolution, who had warned that the security forces' systematic use of torture and extreme violence, notably rape, would “gangrenize” the French.

When he announced that he was going to try his hand at professional baseball, few skeptics were bold enough to suggest that this career turn would be anything but another Jordanesque dazzler.

There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead.