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"Holtz [m] -- who had had many girlfriends -- shook his head. 'Never underestimate an angry woman.'
'Never underestimate a *woman*,' amended Rios [f]." p. 239

"Marcella scowled at the memory of her ex-friend. Her late husband's late mistress." p. 257

"Carrot could have jollied a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba." p. 159

"The dragon is all too small, methinks," said Kristin, looking at her holy namesake's picture. "It looks not as though it could swallow up the maiden."

"And that it could not either," said Brother Edvin. "It was not bigger. Dragons and all such-like that serve the devil, seem great only so long as fear is in ourselves."

Everyone recognizes the Knyght with the Two Swerdis, even after he breaks one of his swords defending against kynge Pellam and even when he introduces himself as "Balyne le Saveage." (Then again, he's back up to two swords when he meets his brother, for whatever reason.)
But when he accepts another knyght's offer to lend him a byggar sheld, he is totally unrecognizable.
Clark Kent. Glasses.

"Than Balyn toke up the hede of the lady and bare hit with hym to hys ostiary, and there mette with hys squyre that was sory he had displeased kynge Arthure, and so they rode forthe oute of towne."
II.41.26-28.

"Of course, a king would have to be someone who could recognize a hint if it was dropped on his head from a great height," said a speaker sharply, but the other chairs shushed him into silence. (278)
"WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN." (322)
"The common people?" said Vimes. "They're nothing special. They're no different from the rich and powerful except they've got no money or power." (331-2)

* "A sloop with the depth of a mere ten feet ten inches cannot rival a ship of the line for dank airless obcsurity below; but the Sophie did astonishingly well" (130)
* "it was wonderful to see how briskly minds not given to abstract thought rattled these figures, these symbols, up and down..." (141)
* "He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number." (151)

"No man could easily surpass me in ignorance of naval terms."