The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.

Though sexual myths project the image of the black male pussy bandit, the player as the erotic hero leading this life of endless pleasure, behind the mask is the reality of suffering.

For these reasons some historiographers have shrunk back from their task; others, being stout-hearted men, contemptuously trample their critics underfoot, and do not hesitate to “buskle forward, and rush through the pikes of their quipping nips [taunting sarcasm] and biting frumps [jeers]".

Wattpad is not the sort of site where writers talk about suffering for their art or spend hours searching for the mot juste.