unearths some literary gems.
From All Roads to Sospel, by George Bellairs:
[At first I wrote I mistakenly wrote "Sospol." In other words, I mis-spel-led it!]
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Both of them eagerly said they did, the small man vociferously; the large one by vigorously shaking head up and down as though trying to cast it from him.
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'He's known locally as "Andy Know-all," not because of his education, but because he terminates almost every sentence with "you know."' [Technically, wouldn't that make everyone else the "know-alls"?]