'The river in January is fast and high'

'Gathering police-horses twitch and fret'

'ugly losers getting ready to let fly'

'January, and we're looking back, looking forward, don't know which way'

'boy...beautiful Bakelite Bush radios'

'buttonhopping stationhopping'

'doesn't miss a beat sing along it's easy to every changing tune'

'Yes today we're in love aren't we?'

'splintering...wintry bridges...brazen black Victorian heart'

'So what if every other tenement wears its hearth on its gable end?'

'All I want is for my glad eye to catch a glint in your flinty Northern face again just once'

'All I want is my glad eye to catch a glint in your flinty Northern face again just once'

'stank too much today the usual wetdog reek rising'

'sweet warm wine'

'but three bent forks a torn calendar (last year's) and a broken plastic sandal'

'squats in a puddle'

'we hadn't the stomach for it today. We don't deserve a bargain then!'

'No connoisseur can afford to be too scrupulous about keeping his hands clean'

'flabbergasted at the bargain'

'a rarity you'll pay through your nose for'

'All the couples we know either fall apart of have kids'

'we've never shouldered much. We'll stick to small ikons for our home'