| Sentence | Book | Author |
| You have some, Papa. | |
| I shan't have it, Walter. | |
| I never give my real name. | |
| They began there and dug. | |
| Hassan and I were stunned. | |
| Pitying each other, the three women agreed that, should the chance befall them, they would unite and try to reach the Fountain together. | |
| A month later the vase was left for safety in a farmhouse, and Lieutenant Tallis waded across a river in spate to retrieve it, returning the same way at midnight to join his unit. | |
| Did I really have to use the word 'passion'? | |
| You must go straight into the church and apologise. | |
| I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. | |
| She nodded in the direction of the Big Issue salesman and the leaflet girl, and whispered loud enough for them to hear, 'Looks like gypsies, isn't it?... | |
| It is late, and my people are not available. | |
| In fact, one by one everyone we know will start pitching their mortal coils in the drink. | |
| I often let my Legs drop, and could feel no bottom: But when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm... | |
| | Sentence | Book | Author |
| But the drunk was not listening. | |
| But they hadn't harmed it one bit. | |
| What if you find ten there? | |
| Stradlater had the middle one. | |
| Clevinger skirted the trap neatly. | |
| And when he was on the tail of the pop the whip, he would twirl off the end like a top, spinning, falling, laughing, finally stopping just before my heart beat its last... | |
| The butterfly raised and lowered his wings slowly. | |
| Take the case of Count von Schmettau against a miller by the name of Arnold. | |
| But all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained possession of my brain. | |
| His heart was thumping like a drum, but his face, from long habit, was probably expressionless. | |
| I'd never seen so many books in one place that wasn't a library. | |
| A delicate, ladylike spatter of applause, and we all sat down at the enormous linen-draped table. | |
| Thought for a little while whilst pretending to study tedious-beyond-belief manuscript from lunatic. | |
| Yet Darya Frantsovna, an ill-intentioned woman who's been in trouble with the police on many occasions, had already two or three times been to make inquiries through the landlady. | |
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