It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.