"Crux of the matter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crux of the matter, Penny darling!" Dundee assured her in a maddeningly soothing voice, at which Penny clinched her hands in impotent rage. "Flora, seeing Nita receive a letter written on her husband's business stationery, jumps to the conclusion that Nita had carried ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... me, lies the crux of the matter—in all this period the present moment of living never appealed to me in the least. I derived no suggestion of satisfaction or enjoyment from it. I was for ever striving, restlessly, uneasily, and to weariness, for something to be attained later on. ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson |
