Seize her and drag her to the Massymore! To the deepest dungeon with the sorceress, whose master, the devil, could alone have inspired her with boldness enough to insult the mother of Douglas in his own castle.

She threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.” “Never you mind my blood pressure. You let it alone, and it'll leave you alone. UPJOHN!”

The many repetitions of unornamented locomotor movement describing great diagonals do eventually wear.

The sergeant asked for someone to cross the minefield, and Private Muggins raised his hand.