There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables.

Addisonian crisis

She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.

He had become increasingly petty, irritated by details, by the diminishing, for example, of their forenames—Bill, Bert, Mike, Geoff, Steve. He wanted to inquire peevishly if a commitment to Marxism was incompatible with a disyllabic forename.