They were accompanied by the constant scritchings of rats, and occasionally something would go “blup” or “sploosh” in the stuff that wasn't exactly water that ran down the trench.

durum pasta

I give my old clothes to charity when I've grown out of them.

He had been known, during several years, as a small poet; and some of the most savage lampoons which were handed about the coffeehouses were imputed to him.