Adam Smith also dwells on the closely related phenomenon of piacularity; a man who has unintentionally brought about the death or serious injury of another man will feel 'piacular', and spend the rest of his life trying to make up for it […] .

[…] one in whom a discreet causticity went along with a manner less genial than polite […]

Unfitting it was, that the body of that worthy patriarch (to whom all the land belonged by promise) should steal into that country in a clandestine way, and privately enter in at the postern door; rather let it solemnly surround the country, and be brought in at the broad gates. Thus the corpses of men of quality, though the chancel-door be nearer, are borne through the porch and middle alley to the place of their interment.

The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.