After the incident with the potato peeler, references to potatoes became an inside joke among the witnesses.

He refused to come out of his dusty book-ridden room.

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre

The mahout used his feet and an ankhus to direct the elephant, as his voice might not be heard in the din of combat.