“The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.”

“If he turned and ran, the border would follow, and the moment he turned around, there, one step behind him would be Mexico, staring him down with those eyes -”

“How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”

“Placing one last kiss over her heart, he lifted his head to find her staring at him with The Look—the one that told a guy when a woman was leaving Let’s Screw For Fun City and headed straight for Let’s Pick Out China Town—written all over her pretty face.”

“Facing him as I lower the glass from my lips, he's giving me one of those intense moonlit stares.”

“A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.”