unearths some literary gems.
From Dust, by Martha Grimes:
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This did not satisfy the eyebrows, which stayed up.
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"It's a bit mixed up [....]" Diane raised her glass as if toasting confusion.
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The tables were far enough apart that you weren't putting your spoon in another table's granola--an image Jury found faintly erotic.
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Melrose...wished he had a pocket watch to snap shut or a pince-nez to twirl.
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Jury cornered a laugh and shoved it back in.
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Mrs. Babcock stiffened and bristled even more. Melrose could have buffed his boots with her.
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[Bonus: Melrose, at one point, is said to be "fed up with feeling like a rhetorical question." And now I'm hearing that as part of an old-fashioned advertisement for some cure-all: "Are you fed up with feeling like a rhetorical question?"]
[Another bonus: A "long case clock whose tone was so dulcet...it might have been apologizing for time passing."]
