The inflexible advocate[s] of the people's rights, were either expelled the Senate Chamber, ostracised, or immolated on the reeking altars of patriotism, by the encrimsoned sword of slaughtering persecution.

After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.

I was a 50-year-old woman; he was a 25-year-old man. . . . I was out of my pajamas and into a short skirt before you could say “cradle robber”.

[T]here is surely, thought she, a perverse and contradictive spirit in man, which makes the whole sex odious.