1.	Various glowing advertisements for it [a house] had appeared in the papers.

2.	But the house had certainly been built by a millionaire and was said to be absolutely the last word in luxury.

3.	All doctors are damned fools. Harley Street ones are the worst of the lot.

4.	Lombard and Blore were over to the left, smoking but not talking. “Lombard, can I speak to you for a minute?” Philip started.

5.	“We’d better rope in Blore to help us. He’ll be a good man in a pinch. Better not tell the women. As for the others, the General’s ga ga, I think, and old Wargrave’s forte is masterly inactivity”

6.	“A dozen eggs and two pounds of tomatoes—ripe tomatoes—”

7.	He didn’t have any use for processions and a procession full of schoolteachers was about as deadly as the River Styx to his way of thinking.

8.	…she had forgotten to change her shoes: two brown Girl Scout oxfords protruded from the bottom of her dress.

9.	Now it wasn’t any particular achievement to be running in the primary. Anybody who can scrape together a few dollars for the qualifying fee can offer for election and have the pleasure of seeing his name printed on the ballot.

10.	He kept on polishing and revising the damned thing. He was hell-bent on making each one a second Gettysburg Address.

11.	He didn’t like it when you called him “Ackley kid.”

12.	He could take something very jazzy, like “Tin Roof Blues,” and whistle it so nice and easy.

13.	“Hiya, Father,” he [the colonel] said tonelessly without looking at the chaplain. “How’s it going?” [The chaplain is an Anabaptist]

14.	With a devastating ear-splitting blast on the horn an enormous Super Sports Dalmain car rushed past him at eighty miles an hour.

15.	sick as a dog

16.	“Why don’t you make a clean breast of it? We know you stole that plum tomato.” “I give you my sacred word it was not a hot tomato.”

17.	Then there was the educated Texan from Texas who looked like someone in Technicolor.

18.	When I once called my sister a cocky-doody, my mouth was immediately washed with a cake of brown laundry soap.

19.	The Marcia Blaine School for Girls was a day school which had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of an Edinburgh bookbinder.

20.	She was not interested in the works of engines or the constructive powers of the Meccanos, but she knew their names, the variety of colours in which they came, the makes of motor cars and their horsepower, the various prices of the Meccano sets.