unearths some literary gems.
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She snatched her bag of sausage rolls from the counter and bolted from the shop, creating such a flurry as she went that a tray of coconut moulds disintegrated where they stood.
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Her jaw was hanging out like the week's washing on a good drying day.
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"Just because she never goes out nowadays doesn't mean she isn't still all there with a cough-drop."
[It's not clear to me whether this "with a cough-drop" business exists outside the present book; clearly it's akin to "with bells/knobs on," but it may or may not be a Porter one-off. (This edition does have a lot of scanos, btw, but I think it's unlikely to be the explanation here.) Incidentally, my researches served to remind me that a "cough-drop" in UK slang can be a person who's a card, i.e., a "caution.")]
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