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| When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. | |
| It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea... | |
| One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, “Poo-tee-weet?” | |
| 'Oh Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.' | |
| The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. | |
| 'You really don't suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit?' | |
| To do this he had employed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. | |
| '...but let us cultivate our garden.' | |
| But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. | |
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| It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. | |
| 'I'll shoot him if you can't, but either way, we've got it to do.' | |
| 'We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep it before us - and Chicago will be ours!' | |
| Everybody began to leave nice and quiet while I laid there with my glazzies closed, slooshying the lovely music. | |
| In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England the 11th of June, in the year 1687, having been thirty-five years absent. | |
| 'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,' whispered Anne softly. | |
| Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. | |
| ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.’ | |
| For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries. | |
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