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"Allie rolled over in bed, and her hand landed on the damp spot on her sheet where she'd cried herself to sleep."A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin
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Even though I was not a prisoner, my sense of escape was immense.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
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"she was tempted to look on James's computer , to go through his emails to see if she could find any clues ,any hints of who (K) might be,but she knew she mustn't turn into one of those people."Got You Back
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"Just one phone call, in the last four years."Child of the Hunt by Christopher Golden
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"He needn't have worried, since it turned out it wasn't his eyes that were the problem."PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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"How ingenious," Conseil said, "to reduce dividing and classifying pearls to a mechanical operation."Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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"he'd kissed Stephanie (now in a swirly-patterned blue and green wraparound dress that James had once said he liked and impractical high heels)perfunctorily as he passed."Got You Back
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Sorry about that! Next : page 22, sentence 7.
L. wrote: ""I've finished my war book now."Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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that's so catchy :)
"he manged to find a starter of bouillabaisse and an entree of cassoulet,which he'd always dismissed before as being a bit low-rent."Got You Back
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"It was the dinner-hour at the farms, and the young woman and her companion heard nothing as they walked but the fall of their steps on the earth of the path, the words they spoke, and the sound of Emma's dress rustling round her."Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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"He's sitting at his desk, absorbed in some massive book, with the same yellow pencil, I guess, lying beside him."Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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"At first glance, I saw no suitcase full of heroin, no huge opium pipes, as I'd feared."A Chalice of Wind by Cate Tiernan
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"she opened the door and smiled as she let me in."A Bullet for CinderellabyJohn D. MacDonald
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"Ally had already made up her mind by the time Gavin returned with the drinks:this was definitely the silliest and least tasteful theme bar she'd ever been in-not that she'd had many boozy nights out since she had the kids."sorry long one .
Special Delivery
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Because it was Trinity Sunday we were treated to a rare old romp from Revelation all about the sardine stone, the rainbow round about the throne, the sea of glass crystal, and the four beasts full of eyes before and uncomfortably behind
by Alan BradleyNext: Page 103, Sentence 18
"I'd prefer him to stay if you don't mind,Captain."A Bullet For Cinderella
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"Instead of two years servitude in Detroit as planned, would they now be stuck here forever?"Letting Go by Philip Roth
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"Prine said in a low voice so Captain Marion couldn't overhear,{this is nonsense.}"A Bullet For Cinderella
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"Nor was there respite, but after one night, Grendel once more committed yet more murderous slaughter."Beowulf: A New Verse TranslationbyAnonymous
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"Our meaning for citizenship derives from the Greek ideal: enlightened political engagement"We the People: An Introduction to American Politics byBenjamin Ginsberg,Theodore Lowi & Margaret Weir
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"the judgment hall was crowded with both men and women, the roughest,the cruelest ,the lowest people of pairs."A Tale of Two Cities
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"The resulting adverse publicity forced a temporary public rapprochement upon the couple."Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton
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"hearing footsteps they turned and rose:they were the three men who had been drinking in the wine-shop"A Tale of Two CitiesbyCharles Dickens
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He had been with any number of women, all of who would cry, or get angry, each in her own special way.Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
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"Now tell me, dear, respected friend, if Monsieur de Valmont actually is a hardened libertine and nothing more, yet behaves in this way, what is there left for decent people to do?"Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Next: Page 199, Sentence 16.
"She again put her short, black pipe to her lops, and renewed her smoking with vigor."Jane EyrebyCharlotte Brontë
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"Why should I want to know who my original parents were? I'm happy with you."Journey Into Darkness by John E. Douglas
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"And what should it express at a time when nothing speaks to her heart?"Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
Next: page 170, sentence 11.
" He'd just given his heart to someone who was hiding it under a board in the floor."Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
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"It was a relief not to be writing out she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroine's face - beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band."Atonement by Ian McEwan
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"He was glad to see him, for he knew him for a tough, sturdy fellow, who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight."Watership Down by Richard Adams
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"in all that time I never wanted to have kids.now I do.with you.I'd like a miniature version of you."Anybody Out There?
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"I leaf again and again through these miserable memories, and keep asking myself, was it then, in the glitter of that remote summer, that the rift in my life began; or was my excessive desire for that child only the first evidence of an inherent singularity?"Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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"he seemed to be trying to find an answer to the question,{why not?}but he said nothing more."A Tale of Two Cities
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"She is the only person who talked to me at all during the evening."Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
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"crying had become a great comfort,but it was difficult to arrange time for it because my face took so long to return to normal." Next: Page 117, Sentence 9.
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
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