The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.

Doug Ford? Doug Ford! In Ontario, of all places?! Surely, Ford Nation can’t win there, not with a leader so unfamiliar with facts and rational discourse, not in Canada’s fulcrum province, the place of habitual moderation.

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

[G]iven the idiolectal nature of language, teachers vary on which vocabulary they think important.