“Good morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it.”
“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!”
“Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.”
“I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.—Bilbo Baggins”
“After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.”
“The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.”