Terry Pratchett - Snuff

Technically, the violent surge of water on Old Treachery was written down in technical manuals as a Dam Slam, but anyone who has experienced one learns to swear, hence the subtle change of name.

Constable Haddock’s immediate nickname when he joined the force was Kipper, because policemen’s minds worked that way.

Or three or four, as far as Vimes the landlubber was concerned.

The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.

The Three Disgraces were apparently the daughters of Blind Io (but you know how people talk); they were Nudicia, Pulchritudia and Voluptia.

That is to say, something bigger than he in fact is, which will turn very nasty if you think you can give this copper in front of you now a seeing-to because you are afloat to the tonsils on beer.

Or, perhaps, somebody else’s.

For those unfamiliar with them, periwinkles, like cockles and whelks, might be considered the snot of the sea.

It had been said by someone years before that to see Sybil Ramkin’s upholstered bosom rise and fall was to understand the history of empires.