What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.

Without them, not only are we deprived of an excellent food source, but also the environment, the merroir they live in, is far poorer for it.

[T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.

Asa Skinner was a man possessed of a belief, of that sentiment of the sublime before which all inequalities are leveled, that transport of conviction which seems superior to all laws of condition, under which debauchees have become martyrs; which made a tinker an artist and a camel-driver the founder of an empire.