Fifty dollars gold 'd buy beer to beat the band—enough to drown me if I fell in head first.

It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […]

I am at the end of my tell.

The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.