P. G. Wodehouse

sleuth's eating kippers

I'm a bit foggy as to what jute is, but it's apparently something the populace is pretty keen on

the lad with the bulging forehead.

I boiled down Corky's painful case into a few well-chosen words

Mine not to reason why, as the fellow said.

do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?'

Peri who stood disconsolate at the gate of Eden

Seeing him steadily and seeing him whole

elf what the dickens

And one thing led to another until, by easy stages, they had arrived at the point where she was saying that she didn't know if he was aware of it, but if he didn't knock off starchy foods and do exercises every morning, he would be getting as fat as a pig, and he was talking about this modern habit of girls putting make-up on their faces, of which he had always disapproved. This continued for a while, and then there was a loud pop and the air was full of mangled fragments of their engagement. I'm distracted about it. Thank goodness you've come, Bertie.”