The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

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.

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.