Just for a moment. We had a glimpse of a Swann tremendously agitated. In a state of nerves. You see, Odette had left. You mean to say that she has gone the 'whole hog' with him; that she has 'burned her boats'? inquired the Doctor cautiously, testing the meaning of his phrases.

The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.

“It’ll go away—keep your knickers on,” he added, shifting off the bed and casting around for his own undertrousers.[…]“I never once doubted that, Mi—Vielle,” he promised her, fastening his undertrousers in place.

These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.