[…] she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter, after being acquainted with her.

My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me.

[…]these days there is a long tradition of ships named Warspite, most famously the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, but when you actually look at the etymology of the name, it is literally war's spite, the spite of war, which, again, is, um, a little bit on the nose for a ship full of nuclear death.

Suky's voice was suddenly full of shock and upsettedness.