The bellicist was sure to advocate an end to the policy of appeasement.

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule

Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and gage smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!

[…] that he had not elected English literature, that he had already wasted too much brain tissue on the question, and that he was unminded to waste any more!