The Ducheſs or Marlborough had one of the grandeſt routs that has been given for ſome time, almoſt the whole of the firſt people of rank and faſhion in England being preſent. This being a new birth to conviviality in Marlborough Houſe, and the firſt rout for theſe ſeven laſt years, it was uncommonly crouded.

He spread avicide in his field to try to kill some of the rooks.

Wood argues this view was just as mistaken, because it assumed the intentions of political agents were effectatious in a way that we, knowing more about politics now, should reject.

[…] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk.