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"An innocent maiden had thus grown up in the belief that the relations between the genial sailor and her mother were the ordinary ones that they had always appeared to be."
The myor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
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"It was very kind of you to help me," she said at the door.
Shirley Jackson, "The Daemon Lover"
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The two officers exchanged glances, and the next question brought a bemused look to the face of the bereaved man when he was asked to account for his own movements that day.
The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.
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While blankets were gathered and tombstones bid farewell to, several women would notice the many inconsistencies in the men's responses and ask either new questions or re-formulate the old ones, only more persistently this time.
The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
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"Bakers have homes, while shepherds sleep out in the open."
-The Alchemist
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"And whatever had been true a generation ago when Catherine of Aragon's daughter had brought back the church to Rome, whatever might be true now of the outlying parts of the realm in this twenty-ninth year of the reign of Elizabeth, the heart and strength of England, the southern and eastern counties, the flourishing seaport towns, and the great city of London itself were Protestant."
- 'The Defeat of the Spanish Armada' by Garrett Mattingly
A bit of a long sentence!
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"Now find out my name," she said teasingly; and withdrew.
Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
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Still, if things had gone thus far and no farther, force of habit would doubtless have gained the day, as usual.
The Plague by Albert Camus
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"Coming out he leaned over the bowl and dipped the cup full and they all touched cup edges"
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
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Death of a Salesman
I told you he wouldn't like it!
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Dementors here, in Little Whinging.
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Wuthering Heights
Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose; scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary - at least, the appearance of one - covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.
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In translation:
"I and my wife were keeping vigil almost for the entire night by the side of the little girl."
(In Cold Blood by Truman Capote)
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"He felt that his son was long past the point of being influenced by a father's opinions."
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
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"His pale eyes had a faraway look, to somewhere beyond life itself."
Bruges-la-Morte - Georges Rodenbach
