To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.

a fashionable dress

Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.