subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator

He showed a little of the pride of art in describing the management of his business, but he would not hear that he “pattered:” he talked to his customers, he declared, as any draper, who knew his business well, might talk to his.

These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.

The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to … draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.