All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.

Then Gale's father learned of the opposing scribe's Bacchuslike tendencies and the next issue of the Enterprise printed a startling expose of the frequent absences from town of the editor […]

The ecological importance of the manatee is clear: scientists have demonstrated the dependancy of all components of an ecosystem on one another.

In England , the drawer of a bill was found liable for the whole amount of the reexchange, occasioned by the circuitous mode of returning the bill through the various countries in which it had been negotiated