She reached in her bag and drew out a leaf from the nosebleed plant she had collected.

He is uneducated, but possesses a quality too many of our college boys lack, viz., “cowsense” and stable experience.

She was dressed to receive, as her mother would have said, and she had been standing at the window in her blue twinset for an hour, waiting for the car, waiting for the doorbell, waiting for the soft turn of her husband's key in the latch.

I wondered, sir, if you might like to accompany me abovedeck for some fresh air.