[…] this untoward Method allows him who is the Respondent, to prevaricate from his Duty, and turn Opponent: Which confounds those two Offices, and perverts all the Laws of Reasoning or Discoursing.

He carefully put the vase back on the shelf.

[…] the purpose of delaying autoops is basically reducing the number of mode changes, and grouping several oppings into one.

By the way, the birds you most often hear in old Tarzan movies are Australian kookaburras and Indian peacocks, which seems rather incongruous considering the loin-clothed one is supposedly barrelling around the African jungle.