Don't stand there like cheese at fourpence.

He was pretty well informed on the life of the author of the book he was selling, as well as the contents of his book, and would deliver in a most ore rotundo style selections from it.

God, what an unbelievable fustercluck, she thought, shaking her head from side to side on her pile of pillows as she remembered Sophie's tear-streaked face as she ran down the block and out of sight.

In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte.