—Don’t mope over it all day, he said. I’m inconsequent.

He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.

There has been the war against split infinitives, over-capitalization, under-punctuation, spelling errors, and misplaced modifiers.

The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.