To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 classic book by Harper Lee.

He did not pay too much attention to the reasons for the shops being unusually busy, although he had been told by Apulius that most people were now in the throes of preparation for the festival of Satanalia.

Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you.

But we don't understand sentences like this in vacuo. We understand them relative to certain larger categories of experience […]