Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution.

The first three sections of the poem are an exercise in the classical mode of anemographia (description of the wind).

Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?

Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school.