"I went to my table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"I went to my table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
In the Noone of night,
till the firedrake hath oregon you.
From Ben Jonson - Two Gypsy Songs
"Well, and how is your Zemstvo getting on?" - Anna Karenina
"Afterward the pilot flew north and received a medal." - Inside Out & Back Again - Thanhha Lai
''Even Okonkwo himself became very fond of the boy - inwardly of course.''
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
"And Lord Henry flung himself down on the divan, and opened his cigarette-case"
- Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Edith kept reassuring her youngest child that the Vonneguts would rise to the top again, and would resume his "proper place in society" when the bad times ended and "would swim with members of other leading families at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, would play tennis and golf with them at the Woodstock Golf and Country Club."
And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
"I was holding my breath.' - Life of Pi, Yann Martel
No one has a sense of humor.
Perhaps if something were funny...Quote:
Originally Posted by papillondemai
"For the war that was seen to be coming Wollweber was assigned the task of sabotaging Germany's sea-borne supplies."
Struggle in the Dark, (How Russian and other Iron curtain spies operate) J. Bernard Hutton, 1969, Pub. George Harrap.
And to the above postings.
Even funny books would be unlikely to have a humerous point at a specific place, namely page 23 sentence 4.
Ouch!Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
'To dine alone or to sit alone after dinner was flat rebellion to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.' - Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
'C'est entendu, Monsieur,' the patronne said.
Then we talked about the name of the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. - The Savage Detective by Robert Bolano