How? Didn't I cap for you, an' square you with the examinin' board? Didn't I stake you to the three hundred dollars?

Leave me alone for once, she said angrily.

Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.

In the lone novel of his career, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the goading Lord Henry cannot seem to help himself from delivering bon mot after bon mot. Word-play and paradoxical summation was a compulsion for [Oscar] Wilde.