That night, diggers from all over the field, having learnt by ‘mulga wire’ that one of their number had married Harry Albury′s girl, gathered round the hut making cacophonous celebration […] .

[…] The only time I get cold beer is when I leave the shit in the snow, and then it freezes and I end up with a beersicle, and I have to wait until it thaws out before I can drink it.

The twilight was still in the dusky skies; the walking took her nearly always over pieces of wrapping paper and banana peels, and the sawdust and detritus that fell from the costermongers’ stalls, lining all the roadways.

Because of its built-in support for many advanced features, TorqueBox is often distinguished as enterprise-grade software. But it does this without many of the drawbacks programmers often associate with “enterprisey” things.