[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

False drop (a): a false drop is a retrieved item that meets the syntactic requirements of a query but not the semantic requirements of a query […]

This more or less conscious aim may get the better of the purely operational purpose of the meeting: thus, up to a point, one may become the witness of oratorlike contests, monologues or arguments, […]

Rosalind savors of quips and hose, / Araminta of wits and beaux; / Prue of old puddings, and Coralie / All of sawdust and spangled shows;