He was gray and thin and unimportant. He had always been gray and thin and unimportant. He was the person whom, in any group, you forgot to introduce, then introduced with extra enthusiasm.

Life was a plot against her, and she exposed it furiously.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

The dinner was in the best style of women's-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and everything but the invincible fried chicken resembled something else.

Han hadde aldri kjørt i bil, aldri sett et badekar, aldri lest annet enn bibelen, McGuffeys lesebøker og religiøse traktater. Han trodde at jorden var flat, at engelskmennene er de ti forsvunne stammer av Israel og at De forente stater er et demokrati.