As far as the eye could reach, I found myself gazing on a surging sea of aunts. There were tall aunts, short aunts, stout aunts, thin aunts, and an aunt who was carrying on a conversation in a low voice to which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest attention.

On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was…

For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look …

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.

He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'