It's at nine o'clock about two feet in from the edge of the branch. You need to know your o'clocks (nondigital) to spot birds.
o'clocks
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
Hence there resulted a division of the membership of the brotherhood into two classes, the practical and theoretic, or, as they are more commonly called, the operative and speculative, or “domatic” and “geomatic."
I'm especially struck with the way you turn the Chandlerism, the colorful unlikely metaphor or simile, into legitimate novelistic indication of character, rather than trick writing for its own sake.
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