It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.

Thersites, who is a sort of one-man chorus for Shakespeare in his barbed commentary on war, lechery and assorted follies of man, shows up in the person of John Neville as a be-leggined, Norfolk-jacketed combination of early war correspondent and photographer.

The overtaxed shaft snapped.

Transclusion means that a thing can be in two places at once.