Probationers who preached in the vacancy had heard rumours, and tried to identify their judge, with the disconcerting result that they addressed their floweriest passages to Mistress Stirton, who was the stupidest woman in the Free Kirk, and had once stuck in the "chief end of man."
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
I've appointed you press agent for this institution, and we need some of your floweriest writing immediately.
"Dear Enemy"
Jean Webster