Monahan stationed himself upstairs near the big room that housed the bar and crap-games; and Finnigan, the kibitzer of the three, naturally won the doormanship, his task being to welcome all patrons when, as and if they appeared, as well as to answer all incoming telephone calls from cabmen en route to the place with fares — an amenity always demanded by Smithy to preclude any unseemly overcrowding.

The validation of this procedure was conducted in human plasma to evaluate the method in terms of specificity, recovery, intraday reproducibility, interday reproducibility, calibration curve, stability in blood, short-term stability, postpreparative stability, freeze–thaw stability, long-term stability, dilution integrity, matrix effect, carry-over, and stability in the standard solution.

[…] Mr. Rushworth discovered that the properest thing to be done, was for him to walk down to the Parsonage directly, and call on Mr. Crawford, and inquire whether Wednesday would suit him or not.

Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.