It is arch, staccato, ironical, witty, galloping, playful, polyglot, allusive-sometimes, alas, so allusive as to reduce the Drama Leaguer and women's Clubber to wonderment and ire.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken
I had to do something like it for Bob Clubber.
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray