But there was neither harmony nor melody in their tones, for they belonged to the different stages and shows ; and if the musicians agreed in any thing, it seemed only in the efforts which they made to outscrape, outscreech, outblow and outdrum each other.

Kessler […] said that he decided to run for alderman because he felt that Triplett underrepresented the ward.

On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.

(Another example of apocryphal information getting passed along dilettantely until it becomes the truth.)