For they are impudent children and stiffhearted

The three men in the room stayed motionless, holding their breaths.

Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.

[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; …