Stylistics

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his...

“He took to the bottle after his wife's death.”

“He loved his wife, his cottage and philosophy.”

 “You know what I mean. You look like a million dollars, I mean”.

“Smiling with a crooked smile that did little to hide his crooked intentions and ...

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without int...

“The road ahead was a ribbon of moonlight.”

“She was a girl of twenty summers.”

Every child must be taught this principle. Every citizen must uphold it. Every i...

“She busted herself in her midget kitchen.”

“Sprinting towards the elevator he felt amazed at his own cowardly courage.”

“She was a sparrow of a woman.”

“If John’s eyes fill with tears, you may have no doubt: he has been eating some raw onion.” 

“′Not a bad day's work on the whole,' he muttered and his fox-like eyes glittered... 'Not a bad day's work.'”

The pound has risen in strength today against the dollar.

 I don't speak empty words.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

She gave us a two-hour lecture on how to make a cup of tea. It was really fascinating.

Mary dropped a tear and her handkerchief.

The next speaker was a tall gloomy man. Sir Something Somebody. 

“Sh-sh”. ‘But I am whispering”, this continual slushing annoyed him.

Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. 

The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail.

Brian came into the room, very much flushed and rather unsteady in his gait. 

“Well, do you have a double-poison-and-cut-my-throat secret?”