The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

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.