Familiars, brownies, water-kelpies, And all the other hellish whelpies; […]

They made their ink from lamp-black and gum-solution, their pens — used brushwise at first, but later cut like quills — from rushes.

Often, they boast that they have managed to get around and beat the actual computer security experts and antihackers (so-called hacker-catchers, or hacker hunters), making fun of them to show that they are the ones hunting the security experts and not the contrary.

Agatha was as cloddish as her name – plain and thick, pasty-faced.