In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.