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| Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle... | |
| The sign had appeared overnight. | |
| In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. | |
| Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. | |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. | |
| The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. | |
| 1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. | |
| Dear Cousin Tassie, Thank you for the lovely postcards. | |
| The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. | |
| Once upon a time and very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy... | |
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| Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. | |
| It was as black in the closet as old blood. | |
| On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning... | |
| It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. | |
| June 18--, Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the 'stile,' in front of his house, contemplating the morning. | |
| With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. | |
| There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. | |
| It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. | |
| In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. | |
| As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. | |
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