emulatory officiousness

[…]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.

We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

“C'mere. Now!” Johnel looked up and down the street. Cars passed back and forth. A couple on other side of the road beneath the trees talked to each other as if nothing weird was happening. […] “C'min the brush where I'm hidin'.” “No.”