Here's another sentence from page one of Tender is the Night, which amused me and made me want to buy this book. It's just there, in the middle of a paragraph describing the wider scene:
Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the sea.
For some reason I like that. It's so simple, yet I can see it.