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He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
Ukridge (1924)
Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
A Few Quick Ones (1959)
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!"
Summer Lightning (1929)
The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!'
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime."
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Attila the Hun might have broken off his engagement to her, but nobody except Attila the Hun, and he only on one of his best mornings.
A Few Quick Ones (1959)
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
Summer Lightning (1929)
A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
A Pelican at Blandings (1969)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
Cocktail Time (1958)
Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)