But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].

The early works of this painter are a complete study for lighthanded and beautiful execution; they look imitatively perfect, yet many instances are known of his extreme rapidity of execution.

Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.

If you came in thinking masculinity was inherently hostile to women, you were very likely to pick up hostility from this professor—not because it was there, but because the guylike behaviors of liking sports, barhopping, watching action movies, talking about cars, and such were all deeply ingrained in him […]