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It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.
Laughing Gas (1936)
If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.
Laughing Gas (1936)
Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.
Summer Moonshine (1938)
And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
Summer Moonshine (1938)
It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
This done, he felt a little—not much, but a little—better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.
Summer Lightning (1929)
We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
She laughed - a solo effort. Nothing in the prevailing circumstances made me feel like turning it into a duet.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice... If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
"What's the tree I read about somewhere that does you in if you sit under it?", to which Jeeves replies, "The upas tree, sir." Bertie rejoins, "She's a female upas tree. It's not safe to come near her."
'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
‘When I say “mind,”’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
Routine is the death to heroism.
The Man Upstairs (1914)
I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m.p.h. under her own steam.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’
‘Oh, am I?’
The Code of the Woosters (1938)