Is this contract upholdable in a court of law?

Such object hath the power to soften and tame Severest temper , smooth the rugged'st brow , Enerve , and with voluptuous hope dissolve

Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …

But there were stories told me of how a harpooned rhinodon, having by a lightning-like dive exhausted the supply of rope, which had been accidentally fastened to the boat, dived deeper still, and so pulled pirogue and crew to the bottom" — as, being a true fish, it remains at the bottom as readily as at the top.