FOUND IN A NOVEL: "Moreover," he smiled, "we may get a chance to trap the old boy himself."
I hate it when novelists have a character smiling instead of talking. He didn't smile it; he said it.
"Moreover," he said with a smile, "we may get a chance to trap the old boy himself."
This was from Louis L'Amour's novel Hondo. BTW, L'Amour wasn't the only writer to do this.
From the same novel, I found the word saturnine, which means gloomy.
Also, The charge ended, the rush was gone, the hillside was a barren and empty thing, alive with death.
It's a run-on sentence, but I love the imagery -- alive with death after a massacre.
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