One went so far as to propose herself to him as An Uncorrupted Eve: and there is no knowing what a disinherison of Posterity may have sprung from his persistent evasion of their pointed flatteries.

The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty.

The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.

As is widely recognized, the technophoria of these and similar authors is all too common, with only Castells of the three offering any serious and specific critique of such enthusiasm.