[…] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.

The two boys cocaptained the sports team.

Marcia Argust, former head of the Security Design Coalition, stands protected by a jersey barrier— a common blockade around the Capitol building.

He was then silent, and began to consider with himself whether it would be properer to make his escape, or to deliver himself into the hands of justice; which meditation ended as the reader will see in the next chapter.