He put the pen on the table.

His [Edmund Spenser’s] stile was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Johnson boldly pronounces him to have written no language.

Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?

The first scenting period is the most important, so large quantities of flowers are used, but the amount is reduced during subsequent scentings.