human
To the glory of religion, and the credit of the town, there are four churches, built with clapboards and shingles, after the fashion of our meeting houses; which are supply'd by four ministers, to whom some, very justly, have applied these epithets, one a scholar, the second a gentleman, the third a dunce, and the fourth a clown.
gpt
The women, like the men, are excessive smokers.
human
They smoke in bed, smoke as they knead their bread, smoke whilst they are cooking their victuals, smoke at prayers, &c.
gpt
Eating, drinking, smoking, and sleeping take up four parts in five of their time, &c.
human
Rum, alias kill-devil, is as much ador'd by the American English, as a dram of brandy is by an old billingsgate,