2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 269: Modernity [...] has done for the graceful glory of the old ways.at do for, v.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 219: [M]any slept under deck blankets from discontinued cruise liners, and some even dossed down in a worn-out lorry.at doss, v.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 75: Standing on London Bridge in what my mother would call ‘a bit of a dwaal’ (an Afrikaans word meaning a dreamy, befuddled moment when your mind temporarily vanishes elsewhere).at dwaal, n.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 266: ‘Yeah, I’m by the water, usual place [...] It’s effing windy’.at effing, adj.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 215: [O]ne day, when killing time in central London waiting to meet a friend [etc].at kill, v.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 159: [The real-life story] seems to be straight out of a penny dreadful.at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
2019 C. Crampton Way to the Sea 120: A four-storey house plonked alongside them would still come up shorter than their peaks.at plonk, v.