She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)

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Thus mean in state, and calm in sprite, My fishful pond is my delight.