Given a large enough storehouse of words and a fine filter, would it be possible to see cultural change at the micro level, to follow minute fluctuations in human thought processes and activities? Tiny factoids, multiplied endlessly, might assume imposing dimensions.

This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable pleasure.

to admire a person of high moral worth

... then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of nonkillings will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom.