Sentence Examples

1. I may add, without vanity, that my presence often gave them sufficient matter for discourse, because it afforded my master an occasion of letting his friends into the history of me and my country, upon which they were all pleased to descant, in a manner not very advantageous to human kind and for that reason I shall not repeat what they said only I may be allowed to observe, that his honor, to my great admiration, appeared to understand the nature of yahoos much better than myself.
2. Though rendered less connected by many and general interruptions and outbreakings, a translation of their language would have contained a regular descant, which, in substance, might have proved to possess a train of consecutive ideas.