And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation.

Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; […]

He referred the matter to the principal.

... and just as I've finished my first glass this snooty cow comes over, ... Then like Si appears and I reckon he saw this mooer was getting my goat, ...