“A guy who bends the elbow should not give someone the elbow.”
“A gee who gets the elbow should not bend the elbow!”
“Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.”
“This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.”
“Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts. The shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown.”
“Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.”