What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this anecdote

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.

it means that the hockey puck was traveling very fast.

hm, switch the relative; nominative and indefinite; objective ? not too bright in the knowledge of the english.