“She curled her lip. She had discovered cynicism.”
Keith Roberts book Pavane
Fifth measure “The White Boat” (p. 194)
Pavane (1968)
“I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.”
— P.G. Wodehouse, book Much Obliged, Jeeves
Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)
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