VVe keep company vvith Harlots and polluted perſons: vve are kind to all Gods Enemies, and love that vvhich he hates: […] And therefore God is inquiſitive; he looks for that vvhich he fain vvould never finde; God ſets ſpies upon us; he looks upon us himſelf through the Curtains of a cloud; and he ſends Angels to eſpie us in all our vvayes, […]

He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.

[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. Is the devil in him, was his first exclamation, to go to disturb the brute?

The “restorationist” constitutional narratives and interpretive theories promoted by Republican politicians and lawyers, [this] Essay suggests, serve to legitimate the party’s use of constitutional hardball.