The Doctor says that some of the quackiest of the quacks are in the army.
[A]n undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference[.]
In addition to several other problems, Alaotra grebes are in the process of being bred out of existence, a process that may, in fact, already be complete.
But now this visit of my soft warm hand in those so sensible parts had put every thing into such ungovernable fury that, disdaining all further preluding, and taking advantage of my commodious posture, he made the storm fall where I scarce patiently expected, and where he was sure to lay it