Ben Bolt

'[...] What right has he to get bossy and tell my dear daughter what she can do and what she can't do? Who does he think he is? Ben Bolt?'

'Ben who?'

'Bolt. Bloke with the girl called Sweet-Alice-With-Hair-So-Brown who laughed with delight at his smile and trembled with fear at his frown. [...]'

Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Chapter 14

Like Ben Bolt's Alice, she trembled with fear at her frown.

Quick Service. Chapter 1

Most of those who came into contact with this formidable woman shared Lord Emsworth's opinion of her, trembling – like Ben Bolt's Alice – with fear at her frown, but Colonel Wedge had never for instant regretted having said: 'Eh? Oh, rather, yes, certainly', in reply to the clergyman's: 'Wilt thou, Egbert, take this Hermione–?' Where others quailed before her commanding eye, he merely admired it.

Full Moon. Chapter 1.II

He had taken an immediate liking to Linda, but he was not blind to the fact that in making her his wedded wife Johnny would be running up against something hot. She was no Ben Bolt's Alice, who would weep with delight when he gave her a smile and tremble with fear at his frown. She was a girl of spirit, and any husband rash enough to frown at her would very shortly know that he had been in a fight.

A Pelican at Blandings. Chapter 8.II

'Meek and crushed nothing. She's the boss. At her command he jumps through hoops and snaps lumps of sugar off his nose. It's like that Ben Bolt poem we used to learn in high school. "He weeps with delight when she gives him a smile and trembles with fear at her frown".'

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin. Chapter 1