unearths some literary gems.
From Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, by Catriona McPherson:
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"Hidey-holes," I yelled, feeling rather foolish, for it is not a word suited for yelling.
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I would be interested to see her have the vapours but not if I had caused them.
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Schichtlers--she managed the name without quite sounding as though she had swallowed a fly while bicycling.
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Alec...saw off my hunch with no more than a desultory wave of his pipe hand and so, as we set to, trying to think how to prove it, we left my hunch behind.
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"Thank heavens you weren't shoved on stage with Sarah Bernhardt and..."
"...Henry Thingamajig."
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Hats were dreadful that year, as they are most years to anyone who is honest enough to say so.
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Bonuses: Rich American visitors referred to generically as "Roosebilts and Vanderfeldts"; and the NOUN form "[a/the] higgledy-piggle."
