Ulysses vocabulary

Mr Riesbitter mused for a moment and shelled the cuspidor with indirect fire over the edge of the desk.

P. G. Wodehouse. The Man with Two Left Feet and other stories (1917)

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 installing two deep chairs upholstered in poison-green plush (ordered from the store of the loyal Charley Betts but, to Betts’s fury, charged to the government, to be paid for if and when) and doubling the number of judicial cuspidors.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here