There was a barkentine in Halifax harbor. That was a thing worth looking at in the year 1933.

[H]e [Thomas Pringle] was poor, and from the outset [William] Blackwood domineered over and brusqued him. [James] Cleghorn was also poor, but of a sturdy disposition, and he brusqued every body.

The overpowering sense of somebody beyond reach who lived in a world riotously happening only in his own mind.

Languages belonging to the Lisp family make use of macros to provide support for compile-time metaprogramming.