Fortune had showered upon him gifts unlooked for; had enabled him, had he been blessed with prudence, to keep the path where he could have been free from ostentatious obligation, on the one hand, and soul searching mortification on the other: but, like an improvident spendthrift, he had lavished away in the fever of indiscretion, the gifts she had bestowed with so liberal a hand; […]

Customers carry clipboards to record stock numbers as they wander about the 3,000-square-foot sales floor, testing items that are displayed, one each, on wooden shelves and tables.

The cat scrap at the bridal bash only made him more doolally.

Twelfth Night is replete with gullings, albeit of different degrees and durations.