The presence and authority of these harvest lords within the seasonal companies is not as remarkable as would have been their absence – for wherever one looks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries one finds examples of men and women who came together to work collectively […]

I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.

That's a mixy noise. The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part? Yer-yer-yer and ah! Ya!

His sardonicism was getting on my nerves.