The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.

John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. You look all jazzy, Tyler said as he approached his partner. I got you a cup of coffee.

[…] the Spy was deceiv’d rather by the Art and Subtlety of Ulysses, than by his Falshood.

That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things Who shut their coward gates on atomies Should be call’d tyrants, butchers, murderers!