Laurence Sterne — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman Chap. 4.37

       &nbspWhich shews, let your reverences and worships say what you will of it (for as for thinking—all who do think—think pretty much alike both upon it and other matters)—Love is certainly, at least alphabetically speaking, one of the most        &nbsp       &nbspA gitating        &nbsp       &nbspB ewitching        &nbsp       &nbspC onfounded        &nbsp       &nbspD evilish affairs of life—the most        &nbsp       &nbspE xtravagant        &nbsp       &nbspF utilitous        &nbsp       &nbspG alligaskinish        &nbsp       &nbspH andy-dandyish        &nbsp       &nbspI racundulous (there is no K to it) and        &nbsp       &nbspL yrical of all human passions: at the same time, the most        &nbsp       &nbspM isgiving        &nbsp       &nbspN innyhammering        &nbsp       &nbspO bstipating        &nbsp       &nbspP ragmatical        &nbsp       &nbspS tridulous        &nbsp       &nbspR idiculous        &nbsp—though by the bye the R should have gone first—But in short 'tis of such a nature, as my father once told my uncle Toby upon the close of a long dissertation upon the subject—'You can scarce,' said he, 'combine two ideas together upon it, brother Toby, without an hypallage'—What's that? cried my uncle Toby.        &nbspThe cart before the horse, replied my father—        &nbsp—And what is he to do there? cried my uncle Toby.        &nbspNothing, quoth my father, but to get in—or let it alone.        &nbspNow widow Wadman, as I told you before, would do neither the one or the other.        &nbspShe stood however ready harnessed and caparisoned at all points, to watch accidents.