And we had agreed completely as to the main stream in the history of the novel … as to its passing from Lope da Vega and the Spanish picaresques, by way of [Danie] Defoe and Richardson, to [Denis] Diderot, Stendahl and [Gustave] Flaubert …

seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim

[The old man] stood grinning like a gnome, obviously delighted to watch me flush and ruffle and then gradually unflush and unruffle.

Although buccalization of nasal vowels is the phenomenon most often observed, nasalization of oral vowels is not uncommon.