“At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.”

“He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.”

“I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.”

“There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.”

“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

“The drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”