Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying.

Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?

That little rascal bit me!

Young people,interposed a passing official, if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.