The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.

Turning his full attention toward a rather tall, attractive middle-aged woman seated to his right, the Prime Minister smiled and said, “Yanny, I want to thank you once again for coming.”

Could he but once see Nature as / In truth she is for ever, / What oncer would not fall in love?

Robinson Crusoe, the main character in the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.