Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days / To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, / Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.

Twain and Salinger's common genius, Heiserman and Miller suggest, lay in their masterful use of a colloquial American adolescent's voice to convey their respective childism, by which they mean the nostalgic wish to recover our inner Adamic child.

He never once took her name in vain among the fellows: and she had not been a very good girl, either.

In some women it is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere; […] .