“Then she really started yelling and the words which she used cannot be written down on paper, for they were terrible words.  They poured out of her small fish mouth in one long unbroken high-pitched stream, and little bits of spit and saliva came out with them.”

An excerpt from Dahl’s short story “Madame Rosette” - I love how the terrible words are only magnified by not listing them.  The visual of these unspeakable words pouring out of a small fish like mouth coupled with “bits” of saliva - genius!

His characters come to life and I find him to be the master of “showing” rather than “telling” a remarkable feat when putting pen to paper.