She said: I'm starved. I could eat a horse. I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies, The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!

Though the ungrammaticality of split verbs is an urban legend, it found its way into The Texas Law Review Manual on Style, which is the arbiter of usage for many law review journals.

The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.