to club the expense

With that away she went, and he, dismounting, caught sight of her disappearing from among the shining magnolia-trees that were planted hedgewise round the lawn.

'Oh, I forgot,' he said, mincing, 'you nosegents is so fokking pure.'

We moved the things in, and the snow made a cronching sound. I’ll never forget how quiet it was, and the cronching sound of the snow.