Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XVI: "The Last Straw"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Frasi in inglese
Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter III: "Breakfast"
"Bacon", in Baseless Biography (1939), p. 6.
Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
Origine: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
“[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.”
12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter I: "Bad News"
Origine: Trent's Last Case (1912), Chapter XV: "Double Cunning"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
11. "The Unknown Peer"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Origine: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Origine: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
“Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?”
7. "The Old-fashioned Apache"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
“Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.”
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Origine: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
“Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.”
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
Origine: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
“Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.”
Clerihews: More Biography (1929)