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Book: The Code of the Woosters
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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence. It was about four inches high and six long. Its back opened on a hinge. Its tail was arched, so that the tip touched the spine-thus, I suppose, affording a handle for the cream-lover to grasp. The sight of it seemed to take me into a different and dreadful world.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn - or, rather, the other way around - and God was in His heaven and all right with the world. And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave.
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    The wretched man seemed fully conscious of his position.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    Scotties are smelly, even the best of them. You will recall how my Aunt Agatha's McIntosh niffed to heaven while enjoying my hospitality. I frequently mentioned it to you.' 'Yes, sir.' 'And this one is even riper. He should obviously have been bedded out in the stables.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    I was as limpid as dammit.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    You two fit like pork and beans."
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.
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  12. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Code of the Woosters

    There is a fog, sir. If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
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