1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ in Some Hope (1994) 148: I was barrelling along at eighty through Utah.at barrel, v.2
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ Some Hope (1994) 85: Amanuensis? Bumboy, you mean.at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ in Some Hope (1994) 92: I thought that Nicholas Pratt was a total creep.at creep, n.
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ in Some Hope (1994) 283: The needle fever had a psychological life of its own. What better way to be at once the fucker and the fucked, the subject and the object.at fucker, n.
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ in Some Hope (1994) 47: The grateful cabbie and the assiduous porter, both calling him ‘Guv’ simultaneously.at Guv, n.
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Bads News’ Some Hope (1994) 194: ‘I was going to stick you,’ he said, proudly showing Patrick a small knife.at stick, v.
1992 E. St Aubyn ‘Never Mind’ Some Hope (1994) 41: All Nicholas’s friends were such wrinklies and some of them were a real yawn.at yawn, n.
1994 E. St Aubyn Some Hope 342: She had started ‘using’, [...] taking drugs, in the sixties, because it was ‘a gas’.at gas, n.1
1994 E. St Aubyn Some Hope 317: When we took gear at parties, all we saw was the inside of the loos.at loo, n.1