TURNS OF PHRASE FROM WODEHOUSE

I only feel the need to try PG Wodehouse's work every ten years or so, but a recent foray, into Heavy Weather (1933), induced a new admiration for his ruthless comic phrasing. Examples:

"He was still standing... draped bonelessly over the rail";
"galloping down the stairs... in what for a man of his build was practically tantamount to a trice";
"Lord Tilbury's eyes, always prominent, bulged a trifle farther from their sockets"; and
"'Good evening, sir,' said the barmaid in her spacious way".