His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. - P. G. Wodehouse

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.