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| This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. | |
| Yet the sixth of January,1482, is not a day preserved in history. | |
| If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. | |
| In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. | |
| Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them. | |
| When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. | |
| I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman--he looks tough and I don't--but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. | |
| So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. | |
| He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders... | |
| They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again. | |
| Full of a baby’s venom. | |
| We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company dined early) the cold winter wind... | |
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| Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little... | |
| “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” | |
| It was a spring afternoon in that year of grace 19--, when Europe sat upon the anxious seat beneath a menace that hung over its head for months. | |
| Legs, shouts. | |
| However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families... | |
| With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer... | |
| His voice was deep, loud and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it. | |
| Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters. | |
| Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. | |
| He was lucky to avoid a meeting with his landlady on the stairs. | |
| I was a kid then, barely topping the backboard of father’s old chuck-wagon. | |
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