P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Description
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Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.
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Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.
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The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!'
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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The female in question was a sloppy pest
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In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.
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'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'
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Even at normal times Aunt Dahlia's map tended a little towards the crushed strawberry. But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.
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It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.
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[of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.
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He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
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As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
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She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.
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The Duke's moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.