Spontoon

The characters have wonderful names like “Waddy Spontoon”, “Captain Scudder”, and “Leech”.

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Spontoon shall then attend him; and they shall ride post as far as Huntingdon; and the presence of Spontoon, well known on the road as my servant, will check all disposition to inquiry.

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Lady Emily is to be your nurse, and Spontoon and I your attendants.

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I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connections.

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The next morning Stanley rode a stage northward with his new friend, and parted from him with great reluctance, upon the remonstrances of Spontoon, who, accustomed to submit to discipline, was rigid in enforcing it.

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Spontoon (an old soldier), while he pretended to approve, contrived to make her delay her intention.

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Walking at a brisk pace, but out of step, across the lorry-scarred spaces of the old Krupp works here, Doctors Muffage and Spontoon look anything but conspiratorial.

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"That man's connections," Spontoon shaking his head, removing the instruments from their disinfectant solution and laying them on a sterile cloth beside the stretcher.

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"I assisted at a few whilst I was interning," Spontoon recalls.

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Fancies himself a bit of a Nay-land Smith, Spontoon does.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978