"A quick answer seemed to rise to her lips, then be stifled. She looked at Poirot and a deep burning colour spread over her face. She looked away; her head dropped down. She said in a low stifled voice: 'Yes, I know. He hates me now. Yes, hates me... He'd better be careful!'"
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
"Whenever you feel like giving up. think of all the people that would love to see you fail."
Word of the day:
Crapehanger - (noun) a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist. Also, crepehanger.
* Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own.
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925
* I don't like to be - what my people sometimes call a crapehanger - but Teff-el was to have been crushed by the new ships equipped with the transporn beam and the magnetic and gravity bombs.
John W. Campbell, The Mightiest Machine, 1947
Imaginary Place of the day:
Kingdom of the Abdalles - (...) The Abdalles consider it offensive to point with the finger. Only the king and the divinity are indicated by this gesture. All other objects are indicated by pointing with the elbow. (...)
Kingdom of the Abdalles - (...) The Abdalles consider it offensive to point with the finger. Only the king and the divinity are indicated by this gesture. All other objects are indicated by pointing with the elbow. (...)
Charles Fieux de Mouhy, Lamekis, ou les voyages extraordinaires d'un Egyptien dans la terre intérieure avec la découverte de L'isle des Silphides, enrichi des motes curieuses, The Hague, 1735
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