tonight’s writing tip: using “deign”

what NOT to do (courtesy of an otherwise decent fanfic):
“He must have come home, but I had yet to be deigned with his presence.”

a person (subject) deigns (condescends), but a person (object) cannot BE deigned, and deign takes the preposition “to” (never “with”)

our example, when corrected, becomes the much more graceful:
“He must have come home, but as yet had not deigned to grace me with his presence.”