The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.

The lakeside cottage was on a peninsular spit of land.

She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled Papa and Mama.

A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.