the scent dried away like water, dislimned like a far-off small thing when the tears of effort drown it.

Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.

... my Boston College cohortmates, Joshua Snyder, Michael Cagney, and Nichole Flores; my housemate, Michael Jaycox, who allowed me to try many of the ideas contained in this book out on him during impromptu conversations in our kitchen;[…]

[W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]