It was in the mid-region between two people in conversation where false constructions are put by either party upon what is said that du Maurier, like Meredith himself, perceived the source of comedy was to be found.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
He has to throw aside all the panoply of scholastic logic, the vast apparatus of professional learning, and the complex Latinised constructions, which, however admirable some of the effects produced, shows that the writer is thinking of well-read scholars, not of the ordinary man of the world.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
No constructions for a similar purpose found in any part of the world have ever surpassed them.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou