“Among all of them there was the same kind of talk that George had heard before. 'It’s worth all of that,' they told each other eagerly. 'It’ll bring twice as much in a year’s time.' They caught him by the lapel in the most friendly and hearty fashion and said he ought to settle down in Libya Hill and stay for good”
“bulging eyes””
“His pouched eyes protruded angrily.””
“Bury me on a sunny morning, So that none following my ragged cortège Shall suffer wind, or squall, or rain … And get a beastly cold. ALBERT GLATIGNY””
“Two men, who on the previous day had lost their appendices, writhed from their beds and tried to get at the constable and his father with a view to murdering them. A chap with a broken thigh struggled to release himself from the blocks and tackle in which he was imprisoned and do the same. And a fellow of fifty who that day had had half his thyroid taken away started shouting for his mother.””
“Glaisher was lanky and thin with a furrowed face and a tired manner. Only his black, sparkling eyes were animated. For the rest, he looked like a dissipated French savant of the last century. The cut of his clothes was even out-of-date. Perhaps it was living a semi-fossilised life in Melchester made him such a relic.””
“Mr. Sylvanus Groan, the County Coroner,””
“UNCLE JONAS””
“Rupert Roderick Smee, author of Power Cables to the Infinite and Telephone Messages to Heaven,””
“the mouth large and brimming over with teeth,””
“protruding eyes””
“the tepid, glutinous soup, the fish lost in sauce, and the jam roll which, described as baked, seemed toasted hard and soaked in the same white sauce only sugared and minus parsley.””
“soon he, too, was snoring.””
“Butt set out to confirm that Lovers’ Lane really was what it had been called by gentry and serfs alike since Domesday Book.””
“Nehemiah Butt’s voice, which resembled that of a furious old baboon,””
“suddenly, Ronald asked me to marry him.” “You agreed right away?” For the first time she showed some animation. Her cheeks flushed. Littlejohn felt she was angry at the thought that she’d jumped at the offer.””
“Laura Cruft was dressed in a green linen frock which outlined her rounded figure. She had about her an athletic sensual sinuosity,””