“It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes--the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.”

—  P.G. Wodehouse, book The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

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