confounded ass!” But suddenly controlling himself— “I wished, doctor, to make an analysis, and primo I delicately introduced a tube—” “You would have done better,” said the physician, “to introduce your fingers into her throat.” His colleague was silent, having just before privately received a severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot, was today very modest.
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
The deeds of assignment, like the conveyances of a verbose attorney, would be more cumbersome, but the thing assigned would be precisely the same as before, and could produce only the same effects.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations