"I'm not going to marry the best man in the world," retorted Miss Cornelia. "Marshall Elliott is a long way from being the best."

"Mr. Hyde is gone," she announced.

"You're a darling," she whispered to her child, drawing her suddenly against her knee. "Do you know you're a darling? Do you know you're a darling?"

“Dr. Sheppard has been a model of discretion,” said Poirot dryly. “But me, I discover all the little secrets. It is my business.”

I felt a cold sinking, as though some unutterable calamity had befallen me.

“My God! they are killing me, and yet I am neither a sorcerer nor sacrilegious!”

“Being up in the air has done me good.”

“Battle, I take off my hat to you. You know everything. But just as a matter of detail, he’s taken me on, not I him.”

After all this it results of itself that it is more fitting to say Art of War than Science of War.

"I should think that sort would be better," she said meditatively, "men that had seen life."

“The number of persons who perished in these terrible circumstances is estimated at eighty thousand.

“Alas! I have no more slippers! and alas! I have no more trinkets! May heaven help me for I know not what I shall do!”

Felix prayed earnestly that he might be enabled to eat a bitter apple without making a face

The Greeks were now everywhere proclaiming their independence, and Kursheed found himself unexpectedly surrounded by enemies.

The first pilgrims to the Holy Land brought back to Europe thousands of apocryphal relics, in the purchase of which they had expended all their store.

Mr. Fogg repaired to his bedroom, and called out, “Passepartout!”

“Look out there! The very thing we are looking for—on our weather beam!”

"I thoroughly allow that the celebrated Professor wrote the lines, but only, I believe, as a kind of mystification," was my answer.

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