Orchestration -- in OED?

[Laurence Horn]

On May 1, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 5/1/2014 03:49 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>
>> Ah-CHOO!  ... Is that all there is?
>
> I give you the OED's quotation that immediately precedes the 1954
> about sneezing:
> 1928   D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover iii. 32   She still
> wanted the physical, sexual thrill she could get with him by her own
> activity, his little orgasm being over.

Sounds like we're talking Chatterley, not Mellors here.  Ah-choo indeed.  The earth didn't move, but the kleenex did.

LH

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