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Superb Euphemism in Aurora Dawn by Herman Wouk

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Near the end of Chap­ter 8:

Leach’s face tight­ened into its accus­tomed lines. “I don’t think they’ll strug­gle too hard,” he said through his teeth. “Not with four day­time and one other evening show still on their nets. I’ll talk to Wolver. It’ll be all right.” His man­ner of say­ing this left no doubt that it would be, and indi­cated that his “talk­ing” to the unlucky Wolver would be in the tra­di­tion of per­sua­sion fol­lowed by antique mon­archs with the aid of quaint machines.

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