Her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939) Chapter 10.
His pale eyebrows [were] bristling and stiff and round like the little
vegetable brushes the Fuller Brush man gives away.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939) Chapter 18.
Cab Driver [Joy Barlow]: Call me if you need me again.
Marlowe [Humphrey Bogart]: Day or Night?
Cab Driver: Night's better. I work days.
-- Raymond Chandler,
William Faulkner and others, movie of The Big Sleep (1946)
from the novel by Raymond Chandler.
A smell of kelp came in off the water and lay on the fog. The tires sang
on the moist concrete of the boulevard. The world was a wet emptiness.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 23.