An ass's head was placed so conveniently, that the party affected might easily with his mouth accost either of the animal's ears; which he was to apply close for a certain space, and by a fugitive faculty, peculiar to the ears of that animal, receive immediate benefit, either by eructation, or expiration, or evomition.

So that poor Brunout has nothing for it but to retreat with accelerated nimbleness, through rank after rank; Parthian-like, fencing as he flies....

Few of these groups or communities that are classed as savage show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.