It dealt in fratricide with a touch of adultery; a Great Moral Purpose loomed in the background.

It would have been a dully readable novel but for that; as it was, it was intolerable.

It was amazing that Cal himself could put out such stuff; that he should have the impudence.

He was not a fool, not by any means a fool.

It revolted me more than a little.
I came to it out of a different plane of thought.