The Commanding General wished to know whether cloth going into storage should ever be decated. The opinion of the technologist was that , if the cloth was decated in the presence of DDT, the mothicide would steam-distill out[…]

Because the wool is poor quality it is coarsening the fabric.

Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.

Antonio: What a blow was there given! Sebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.