Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

Basking in the sun whether it's on the porch or on the boat, he just loves to lay out and catch some rays.

an unfooted schwa