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His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.
Something Fresh (1915)
'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'
'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
Laughing Gas (1936)
Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
I consider that of all the dashed silly, drivelling ideas I ever heard in my puff this is the most blithering and futile. It won't work. Not a chance.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
"She loves this newt-nuzzling blister."
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
'The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.'
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.
Piccadilly Jim (1918)
... "someone tried to assasinate Lenin with a revolver. That is our (Russia's) great national sport, you see."
The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.
Spring Fever (1948)
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
Big Money (1931)
To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
The Girl in Blue (1970)
‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’
‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)