The Quaker was no sooner assured by this fellow of the birth and low fortune of Jones, than all compassion for him vanished; and the honest plain man went home fired with no less indignation than a duke would have felt at receiving an affront from such a person.

All night the choiring bells heralded the flight of the hours through the Octobral air...

a flexible language

The tracks laid for the systems of semantical linguistics were among the first evidences of the scientific invasion of linguistic terrain.