A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.

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[T]he mouth of the salt-water creek was usually surging like a mill-race, but wasting its power—or so it had been—on transporting such things as jellyfish, leaves, and crocodiles. This waste had been the cause of great irritation to Mark, who, though careless of most forms of ineconomy, could not bear to see the wasting of natural force.