Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]

I have no way of knowing how much money per day on the average these valiant axemen and axewomen of the lowlands received for their monumental labor, but I would be surprised if someone who had figured it out told me the average was as much as forty cents per day.

In the screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., and David Rayfiel, Turner very early on stumbles upon the existence of a kind of super-C.I.A. within the C.I.A., after which his life is not worth a plug nickel.

The scholar kept his revered books in a special part of the library.