From The Iron Clew, by Alice Tilton:

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"Mr. Witherall, in my candied opinion..."

[This character says "candied opinion" repeatedly, as does her niece (because there's always a niece! in fact, in this installment there are two nieces, of two separate families).]

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[Lord Emsworth dept.]

His pince-nez, apparently sharing his astonishment, bounced from his nose.

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[Hydbridized Jack Horner and Jack-in-the-Box dept.]

The figure of a woman appeared suddenly in the vicinity of his front door--rather, Leonidas thought, as if she'd sprung up through the lawn from some subterranean Jack Horner pie--and started hurrying down his flagstone path.

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His cheeks and ears began to burn at the thought of what a clambake, fish fry and general field day his discovery would provide for the neighbors.

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"Unless I'm so late that Inga's soufflé has fallen by the wayside, I shall have an excellent dinner."

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At the drop of a hat, he had intoned to them a sententious poem whose pièce de résistance was a couplet about truth having no exceptions.

It was almost a relief to find himself wondering, parenthetically and quite irrelevantly, what in the world had rhymed with "exceptions." Or, for that matter, what had rhymed with "truth."

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"Somehow I always thought of him as a pillar of--hm. I don't know that I ever went so far as to qualify the type of pillar, but I definitely placed him in the pillar group."

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They hadn't seen him yet, but they would as soon as they finished brushing the snow from their shoulders. Yeoville and Emily [btw, their surname is Pushing] always saw everyone, everywhere. They made a point of it. Seeing people they knew was virtually their life work.

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"You hadn't ought to leave any loopholes unturned at all!"

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"You mean that you often drop into caddy houses at midnight after blizzards, just on the off chance of running into someone who's stolen your dinosaur's footprint?"

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"There was Blinko [a magician], in installments, and sandwiched in between his acts was a group who sang songs in hoop-skirts, and then in wimples, and then in bathing suits--you know."

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"I appreciate how irritating it must be for you to have all these loose ends--er--waving in the air like so many question marks."

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"But look here, it was a dinosaur's footprint!" Liz said. "When did it get to be a bank report? When was it a dinosaur's footprint last?"