Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.

His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.

"For this sight I laught mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me.

2001 August 14, Riki Wilchins, Gender on celluloid, in The Advocate, page 26.