[G]iven the idiolectal nature of language, teachers vary on which vocabulary they think important.

Doug Ford? Doug Ford! In Ontario, of all places?! Surely, Ford Nation can’t win there, not with a leader so unfamiliar with facts and rational discourse, not in Canada’s fulcrum province, the place of habitual moderation.

The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.