unearths some literary gems.
From These Names Make Clues, by E. C. R. Lorac:
***"If you ever saw a man whose bonnet looked less likely to be bee-infested than the inspector's, then lead me to him."***"I'll bet my head to a china orange...."***"He's a sort of mental conjurer, keeps half a dozen lines of thought in his head simultaneously and never muddles them up."***"We were exchanging local reminiscences in the fatuous way one does--'remember old so and so?...and is poor old what-not still alive?'"***[Eating Someone Else's Hat dept.: The character speaking here is wearing a hat that he's borrowed from his friend "Fatty."]"If I can't catch him I'll eat Fatty's hat."***"I hitched my wagon to a hunch."***
