Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Italian people are charming, down to the whimsical tone of their language.

[…] I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist, ma'am; […]

having its earthy and salinous parts so exactly resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by atomical terminations

The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.