Rowzien - Damn Me, I Was Tying My Cravat

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

A drawing by Paul Gavarni, 1838, in his series Les Petits malheurs du bonheur (Little Misfortunes of Happiness).

The caption reads: Pour ne pas afficher ses amours, sortir précipitamment par une porte dérobée et rester pris au traquenard. (In order not to show off your love life, you rush out through a back door and get caught in the trap.)

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

October can’t come soon enough