... his legs dragging limply. The door of the car opened and the two men lifted him in. It was all over in seconds When you speak to London, Philip said quietly, I suppose it means they'll pick up Robert. Still, even that's better than. He nodded towards ...

... and stood looking at him queerly, her face drawn and pale. How is he, do you think Laura? It was something of an effort to speak. He felt exhausted, mentally and emotionally. He was too drained of feeling to even bother with the fact that he had just escaped ...

... Expensive though they are, they do enable us to make more of those simple dishes we make up from our heads, out of nothing, so to speak. Coming in just now are South African peaches, apricots and plums. As the month advances, the present small quantities will ...

... less well supported than he deserves. None of the three town ladies appear to relish the outrageous lines they are given to speak. Miss Diana Churchill is especially eager to skip rapidly through passages that must be dwelled on if they are to show their ...

... but to Napoleon the little king, who had held court in a five-roomed villa, tweaked Elban ears, and talked to his Italian-speaking subjects in the not unfamiliar accent of Corsica, which lies some thirty miles or so to the west. This is not like France ...

... Sanderson Son Ltd. ask first for VAT 69. I Scotch whisky Joy Tomorrow they may see the sun in many different lands, hear voices speak with many different tongues. But whether taking their leave of England or arriving in distant places, those who appreciate ...

... foreign innovation, in the way that a British working- man might look askance at bouillabaisse Perhaps there are English-speaking tits and robins, as it were, and there are Central Europeans, and their respective cuisines vary according to their country ...

... the Royal Air Force blazer I was wearing, said, You must be in the King's service? Well, yes: I suppose, in a manner of speaking, I am. And she leaned forward, very earnestly and confidentially, and whispered, How is he? On this same railway journey ...

... that time plays j in our everyday life, and the nearer one comes to nature, the more difficult it is to, metaphorically speaking, twist time round our little finger. In agriculture one may not he frustrated by catching the train or by getting to the ...

... rather chilly Burgundy and all helped out with hard-boiled eggs, Stilton cheese and biscuits. It is no longer obligatory I speak here of the moral kind of obligation to join the Royal Horse Guards to wear cavalry twill. But to be mistaken for genuine county ...

... can, moreover, be used to partner any kind of dish a French wine may partner, once one has sampled a few and learned, so to speak, one's way around. Studies in the Cellar I have been guided in such studies by Senhor Antonio Mendes, Commercial Attache at ...

... made by an ingenious friend, and before the Lancet or the British Medical Journal gets wind of this new disease. The friend I speak of had been the victim of sneezing fits, and it occurred to him, when they persisted beyond the lifetime of a common cold, ...