These two women beerily beflirt me …

Mantastic as Jake was, one thing was certain.

“But . . . Laser Lass is just . . . banging!” Stifling a giggle and deciding this must be some masculine epithet she hadn't come across before, Evey gave the handcart a shove and went on her way. After all, banging wasn't anything that was shown on TV these days, even if some of Gordon Deitrich's shows did get pretty near the knuckle sometimes.

...and a china shepherd and shepherdess, clothed in a green and yellow melancholy, were the penates of the mantel-piece.