At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater].

...I doubt not but you will adiuvate suche poore adnichilate orphans as whilom were condisciples with you, and of antique family in Lincolnshire.

Linking slavery to the Christian myth of origins and cosmogony is curious; origin myths and protologies describe not so much how things came into being, but why things are the way they are in the present, and they also insinuate how things ought to be.

He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.