He lived a reproachful life.

The struggle of Europe, coming, as well as past, is a final struggle of opposite principles; it is the deathlock between self-government and slavery.

These perverbs are consistent with the cognitive view's emphasis on the theoretical import of idiosyncratic proverbs. When a perverb is used in public, and some are, the theoretical issues raised are as pressing as they are for any production P-task.

There was a young fellow of Alltree Whose parts were but puny and paltry, But he knew how to do A neat gobbledegoo [. . . . . . . . . . . cetera desunt]