unearths some literary gems.
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"Some posh bloke with one of those names that don't know where to stop; Monty McMontague-Mount-Muckity, or some such."
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He cultivated a grey moustache that passed beneath his nose as part of a full orbit around his head, taking in mutton-chop sideburns and the coastal region of a glistening bald pate.
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"Don't be an ass, Boisjoly," said Ivor in that flat, uninflected sort of way in which one says "Don't be a teapot" to a teapot.
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Barking [that's a character's surname] had allowed his mind to wander, and when it returned it appeared to have stumbled on something and knocked it over.
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Ivor squinted in thought, as though focusing on the question, which occupied an uncertain spot somewhere in the air between us.
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[Bonus: "the leopard's loungewear" (i.e., cat's pajamas).]
[Bonus: Re. someone impersonating a character called Flaps Fleming, we have a reference to "two Flaps Fleming"--thus a rare instance where the pluralization of the first name rather than the second is merely *implied*, since the name already ends in S. (But when the allusion recurs, the author goes with the more pedestrian "Flaps Flemings.")]
