Annie was no different. With her generous Birminghamese attitude, she laid out two dozen candles.

Someone with the humility of unarrogance may be as attentive to particular entitlements as any other alert, rational person.

Kae! ye gawvison! exclaimed the opposite party, evidently tickled with the implied compliment.

As the night-take-backers applaud Steve, Laura runs out, and he follows to thank her for not delivering him to what he’d previously, cringily, called a “lynch mob.”