I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves. - P. G. Wodehouse

He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.

For some moments after silence had come like a poultice to heal the blows of sound, all that occupied his mind was the thought of what pests the gentler sex were when they got hold of a telephone. The instrument seemed to go to their heads like a drug. Connie Keeble, for instance. Nice sensible woman when you talked to her face to face, never tried to collar the conversation and all that, but the moment she got on the telephone, it was gab, gab, gab, and all about nothing.