Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.

a rude awakening

Notwithstanding that well-poized constitution and equal law, or, in the expressive language of Greece, that eunomy of the Corinthian state, which Pindar has, apparently with justice, celebrated

Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.