I passed through the shell-shock wards and a yard where the shell-shocks sat about, dumb, or making queer, foolish noises, or staring with a look of animal fear in their eyes.

You're going to show them what you're made of. That your fluff is fluffier than the fluffiest. That your fetching skills are fetchier than the fetchiest.

On the Royal Mile, Gordon Nicolson, who owns a kiltmaking shop, said that Mr. MacAskill’s efforts had backfired.

For instance, when sodium is burned, it becomes a snotlike goo that fouls boiler tubes and drives engineers nuts.