Then from his cavernous armpit drew and gave The singing leaves, not such as erst I knew, But strange, disjointed, where the unmeasured feet Staggered allwhither in pursuit of rhyme, And could not find it; assonance instead, Cases and verbs misplaced—remediable those — Broad-shouldered coarseness, fondly meant for wit.

Hello Cocky! What yer want? This in a more-than-human voice from a fine sulphur-crested cockatoo. Hello Cocky! His thick black tongue worked in his narrow mouth. So absolutely human the sound, and yet a bird's.

When he told the story our father laughed out loud at the ide of them, scrambling up the bank, butt naked, chased by the furious driver.

US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.