Sold! yelped the auctioneer--sold to madame the widow Dupuis of Hirondelette, who was now elbowing her broad way through the crowd to her bargain which she struggled out with, red and perspiring, to the mud-smeared lawn, where her eldest daughter shrewdly examined the bedquilt for holes.

to squint an eye

The only problem is that the dancers were talking about doing something they loved, and the servers, as the wait staff members are unisexually known, are doing something they hate, just to pay the bills.

And when a little bridesmaiden, uncommonly like you, / Comes into church so trippingly, all dress’d in white and blue, / You’ll discover, as you reach the middle aisle, / Why they linger’d, linger’d, linger’d at the stile.