some later instances and adjacences, inadequate gestures, some obsolete  

                        puttering with his “philosophical language”   ₁                         for example, puttering with the doorjamb   ₂                         apart from the subject matter before them; nor did they allow themselves to become putterers in a blind alley of professional abstraction into which the layman cannot enter.                         I remember one evening   ₃                         not in real-time or movie-time, but in old-man-puttering-about time...   ₄                         He goes on to say, “In this unsettled period”   ₅ as if.               “I have stood on the bridge at midnight,”   ₆                         But language does not stand still.   ₇

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