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Evelyn Waugh

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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.
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An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy", but this is a remembrance of another journalist; when Boot himself quotes it, he has "plashy".

 
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