I see you,' cried Miss Pecksniff, to the ideal inflicter of a runaway knock.

In the centre of the island in classical times was a shrine to the Bronze-Age god Smintheus, a powerful inflicter and averter of plague.

To the tune of a traditional tango, that generally asks the singer's dancing partner to "Haunt him and taunt him and consume you in a kiss of fire", the lyrics form a love note to the sadistic inflicter of such glorious pain.

He had never seen such a fat boy, in or out of a travelling caravan; and this, coupled with the calmness and repose of his appearance, so very different from what was reasonably to have been expected of the inflicter of such knocks, smote him with wonder.

"You contemptible chattering ape," the speaker intoned in its quiet unimpassioned way, "you inflicter of horror on the helpless, you bullying chimpanzee, you exploded lemur, you overgrown spider monkey, you shambling--" "Thank you, Half Pint," Cullingham said, pulling out Half Pint's plug.