If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.