Eh, what! cried Kurz, who had been winning [the card game] lately, how can he get cold feet? / So? said the rector, hotly, for he was determined to retain his winnings, haven't I as good a right to cold feet as you? Don't you always get cold feet, at our club, when you have had good luck? and he carried it out, he kept his cold feet, and his winnings, […]
He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him. Three times in the chest, and it still didn't kill him! But I had to go to jail for a whole year.
What, virtually all women you know are attracted to fat wallets? Virtually all of your single-mom friends are trying to snare daddies, squirt out more babies and get more vaginamoney?
Therfore for this end, foure things would chiefly be observed in the choyse of wordes. First, that such wordes as wee use, should be proper unto the tongue wherein wee speake. Againe, that they be plaine for all men to perceive. Thirdly, that they bee apt and meete, most properly to set out the matter. Fourthly, that wordes translated, from one signification to another, (called of the Grecians Tropes,) be used to beautifie the sentence, as precious stones are sent in a ring to commend the gold.