The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.
However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?
...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.
Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
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