a shiver of their own loaf

Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical.

She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)