The fallacy about models is seen at once if we ask this simple question: Will the practice of a great writer justify a solecism in grammar or a confusion in logic?

This confusion of tenses, this grand solecism of two presents, is in a degree common to all postage.

Being designed to meet every possible form of inaccuracy in the mere construction of sentences,or, at least, every corrigible solecism by which any principle of syntax can be violated,it necessarily includes almost all the other rules and notes.

Among the thousand varied attempts of grammarians to explain them so, there are a hundred gross solecisms for every tolerable definition.

Had you seen the faces of some of the English ladies of the party, you would have been like me, almost convulsed; while Madame remained perfectly unconscious that she had committed any solecism on la décence Anglaise.

23.To deny to the infinitive the appellation of mood, no more makes it a verbal noun, than does the Doctor's solecism about what "ITS IDEA ever represents."

I now turn from mere solecisms to the broader question of taste.

Marion Hildreth was just Evadne's age, with a pink and white beauty and soft eyes which turned deprecatingly at intervals towards Isabelle, as though to ask pardon for imaginary solecisms against Miss Hildreth's code of etiquette.