Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]

He never once took her name in vain among the fellows: and she had not been a very good girl, either.

Gage, like flammable, is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word (inflammable, in the latter case).

‘A week later he took me to Dubrovnik. We didn’t even have a balcony. They say it’s a beautiful city.’