There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.

Has society introduced swathes of new gold-plated regulations?

Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers.

It is not meant by this passage to be insinuated, that the people of God can do nothing faultworthy, or that they do not commit actions which afford reason for bringing a charge against them, and are in their own nature deserving of condemnation.