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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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The female in question was a sloppy pest
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A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.
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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
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She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.
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The fellow with a face rather like a walnut."
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She loves this newt-nuzzling blister."
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It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
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He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.
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'You know your Shelley, Bertie!''Oh, am I?'
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his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.
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The Duke's moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.
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He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
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Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
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Mere abuse is no criticism.
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He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
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Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.
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Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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'Are you sure?' I said that sure was just what I wasn't anything but.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
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'Stinko, is he?''Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.'
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'And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.'
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His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
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'You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.'
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It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live.
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
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