[…] and even Violet Flower was draped over a couch discussing auras with an earnest, pink-faced chap from Dunnedoo, whose corduroyed legs were tightly crossed over his crotch.

Have pity on we poor wretched sinners / We blatherskites and lopdoodles / Lickspiggots and clinchpoops / Quibberdicks and Quakebuttocks.

...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side...

I believe I have given her a choke-pear.