Every time they patched a hole a new one opened up as if the were forever playing whack-a-mole with their roof.

After that night they only saw each other in their dreams.

She wore designer labels and liked to label people.

Smitty insisted on speaking in code, believing that "Hollywood types" were out to steal the "bon mots" falling from his lips.

The well was running dry and the nuisances of daily life were fraying the writer's nerves.

The small band of fighters easily took the dilapidated fort filled with fat and slothful government troops.

Chaos ensued after the Tea Party candidate admitted he hated tea, preferring coffee with a shot of whisky in it.