Outrage on Gallows Hill Quotes

“He found Costain putting a ragged queue of women in order in front of the grocer’s shop. They didn’t know what they were queueing for, but somebody had started it and the epidemic had spread.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Glaisher grinned, a feat which raised his moustache like a trapdoor, revealing two large fanged canine teeth surrounded by batches of false ones.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“His small, straight nose screwed up when he grinned, resulting in a grimace like that of one of his baboons trying to scare off a rival.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“the little man with the grey hair parted in the middle and blue pop-eyes was an international celebrity on the subject of conditioned reflexes in the higher anthropoids. His books were hailed as revolutionary masterpieces by all except the keepers of the monkey-houses at a number of zoos.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“bulging eyes”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“His pouched eyes protruded angrily.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Bury me on a sunny morning, So that none following my ragged cortège Shall suffer wind, or squall, or rain … And get a beastly cold. ALBERT GLATIGNY”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Two men, who on the previous day had lost their appendices, writhed from their beds and tried to get at the constable and his father with a view to murdering them. A chap with a broken thigh struggled to release himself from the blocks and tackle in which he was imprisoned and do the same. And a fellow of fifty who that day had had half his thyroid taken away started shouting for his mother.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Glaisher was lanky and thin with a furrowed face and a tired manner. Only his black, sparkling eyes were animated. For the rest, he looked like a dissipated French savant of the last century. The cut of his clothes was even out-of-date. Perhaps it was living a semi-fossilised life in Melchester made him such a relic.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Mr. Sylvanus Groan, the County Coroner,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“UNCLE JONAS”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Rupert Roderick Smee, author of Power Cables to the Infinite and Telephone Messages to Heaven,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“the mouth large and brimming over with teeth,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“protruding eyes”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“the tepid, glutinous soup, the fish lost in sauce, and the jam roll which, described as baked, seemed toasted hard and soaked in the same white sauce only sugared and minus parsley.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“soon he, too, was snoring.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Butt set out to confirm that Lovers’ Lane really was what it had been called by gentry and serfs alike since Domesday Book.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Nehemiah Butt’s voice, which resembled that of a furious old baboon,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“suddenly, Ronald asked me to marry him.” “You agreed right away?” For the first time she showed some animation. Her cheeks flushed. Littlejohn felt she was angry at the thought that she’d jumped at the offer.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Laura Cruft was dressed in a green linen frock which outlined her rounded figure. She had about her an athletic sensual sinuosity,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Mrs. Costain was a small, dark shrew, merciless of tongue, and with none of the fluffiness of yesteryear left.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“His voice reminded Littlejohn of lather.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Hilary Paget, who turned out thrillers in a modernised cottage in the village, looked up from his typewriter with such a malevolent gleam in his eyes that his wife, who had found him moody and neglectful of late, put on her outdoor clothes and went for a walk alone rather than sit in the same room with him.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“a lecture. It should have been by Mrs. Topnott, of the neighbouring village of Ditchling Episcopi, on Some Jams I have Made,”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill

“Mrs. Cliffe-Wynrowe, the would-be leader of musical activities. She had all the lights on and the curtains drawn back as far as they would go, and she was to be seen thrashing the piano, flinging her long, thin arms up and down and contorting her body like an epileptic for the benefit of passers-by.”
― George Bellairs, Outrage on Gallows Hill