Martified Sentences

Day 6, Sentence 1:

The seven Bob-Whites squeezed into the Water Witch, in spite of the fact that as twenty-somethings the boat was not really big enough to hold all of them at the same time, and had reached the middle of the lake before Dan smiled wickedly and began to shift his weight from side to side, slowly at first, but increasing in both tempo and magnitude, amid shrieks of protest from Honey and Di and stern commands to stop from Brian, then before anyone could make a correction, it tipped, then capsized, and they were all laughing together in the water!

Original sentence: The boat tipped, then capsized, and they were all in the water!
Source: The Happy Valley Mystery (p. 167, short & ugly).

Day 11, Sentence 1:

Seeing the apprehensive look on her best friend’s face, as they stood outside the Sleepyside charity haunted house, for which Honey had won the dubious honour of first viewing, though she would not have bought the raffle ticket if she had known she would win that prize, Trixie cast a speaking look at her eldest brother, but when he failed to take the hint, Dan stepped forward, took Honey’s hand and led the way into the inky darkness, his final glance to Brian saying as clearly as if he’d said the words aloud, “You snooze, you lose.”

Original sentence: Trixie took Honey’s hand and led the way into the inky darkness.
Source: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress (p. 216, cream oval).

Martified Sentences

Day 4, Sentence 2:

Trixie narrowed her eyes and stalked across the school gym to what had been the Bob-White table at the Spring Dance, but now had been invaded by an unwelcome interloper in the form of Jane Morgan, who was busy angling her cleavage at a certain red-head – that is, until Trixie edged another chair in, gently nudged Jane out of the way, interrupting her mid-sentence, and took her place beside Jim.

Day 4, Sentence 3:

When Brian entered the clubhouse after a long and frustrating session of attempting to teach Trixie some basic car maintenance, the last thing he expected to find was Diana, stretched out on the floor nearby reading a computer magazine and complaining to Dan that no one in the school’s programming club would take her seriously, even though she wrote machine code in her spare time and none of them could.

Original sentence, day 4, sentence 2: Trixie took her place beside Jim.
Source: The Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper (p.66, cream oval).

Original sentence, day 4, sentence 3: Brian was stretched out on the floor nearby reading a magazine.
Source: The Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper (p. 80, cream oval).