incl. "O, for the wings of a dove"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1844
Origin : https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/NSSEFVM3GLRPE8G
'Mr Stoker instructed me to bring your pyjamas, sir.'
I emitted a hollow g.
'It is not pyjamas I need, Jeeves, but the wings of a dove. Are your abreast of the latest development?'
Thank You, Jeeves, 12 Start Smearing, Jeeves!
This reference comes from the Annotations compiled in Madame Eulalie's site
The old boy's reaction wasn't quite so immediate as the butler's had been. The latter had got off the mark instantly, as if he had had the wings of a dove, but Eggy for perhaps six seconds just sat in a frozen kind of way, staring straight in front of him without moving a muscle.
Laughing Gas, Chapter 9
This reference comes from the Annotations compiled in Madame Eulalie's site
It is a type of loony I particularly bar, and the homicidal loony I like least is one with a forty-four chest and biceps in proportion. His fingers, I noticed, were twitching, always a bad sign. 'Oh, for the wings of a dove' about summed up my feelings as I tried not to look at them.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Chapter 4