This is not from my novel, but from a book review I wrote. I’m going to share it here anyway because I’m very pleased with myself.
“Trollope keeps his thumb on the scale in favor of the conservative element, those who would carry on running Barchester’s ecclesiastic institutions as they had been run, presumably, since Henry VIII sacked Cardinal Wolsey.”
“Trollope keeps his thumb on the scale in favor of the conservative element, those who would carry on running Barchester’s ecclesiastic institutions as they had been run, presumably, since Henry VIII sacked Cardinal Wolsey.”