… All true—it's just under tons of water, and the habitations are a bit too togetherly for me.

Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks.

...should not only supply her inhabitants with plentiful purveyance of sustenance, but provant and victual moreover this monstrous army of strangers […]

Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.