As for the mob cap, not a fig did I care for it; but, to be taken for anything but a cavalier, by the ringleted one, was absolutely unendurable.

We are dealing here not with a poetic convention but with a fundamental characteristic of the language — a characteristic further illustrated in the ability to use grammatical morphemes as lexical units, thereby enriching the vocabulary with a whole series of lexemes derived from essentially grammatical devices: ano = membro, aĵo = objekto, aro = grupo, ejo = loko, eta = malgranda, ege = multe, ene = interne, and so on. These can be considered as authentic Esperantisms — as can constructions which in a sense move in the opposite direction: suni, furiozi, fervori, malĉasti, ebli, and others.

Piano and drums make for very good ballet music!

Reflecting a slightly modified version of the hero narrative, Eric rescues Ariel from Ursula and concomitantly saves the merworld from a diabolical female in lieu of a male villain.