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0001|Author of the danger trail, Philip Steels, etc. |
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0002|Not at this particular case, Tom, apologized Whittemore. |
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0003|For the twentieth time that evening the two men shook hands. |
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0004|Lord, but I'm glad to see you again, Phil. |
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0005|Will we ever forget it. |
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0006|God bless 'em, I hope I'll go on seeing them forever. |
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0007|And you always want to see it in the superlative degree. |
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0008|Gad, your letter came just in time. |
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0009|He turned sharply, and faced Gregson across the table. |
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0010|I'm playing a single hand in what looks like a losing game. |
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0011|If I ever needed a fighter in my life I need one now. |
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0012|Gregson shoved back his chair and rose to his feet. |
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0013|He was a head shorter than his companion, of almost delicate physique. |
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0014|Now you're coming down to business, Phil, he exclaimed. |
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0015|It's the aurora borealis. |
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0016|There's Fort Churchill, a rifle-shot beyond the ridge, asleep. |
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0017|From that moment his friendship for Belize turns to hatred and jealousy. |
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0018|There was a change now. |
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0019|I followed the line of the proposed railroad, looking for chances. |
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0020|Clubs and balls and cities grew to be only memories. |
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0021|It fairly clubbed me into recognizing it. |
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0022|Hardly were our plans made public before we were met by powerful opposition. |
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0023|A combination of Canadian capital quickly organized and petitioned for the same privileges. |
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0024|It was my reports from the north which chiefly induced people to buy. |
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0025|I was about to do this when cooler judgment prevailed. |
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0026|It occurred to me that there would have to be an accounting. |
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0027|To my surprise he began to show actual enthusiasm in my favor. |
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0028|Robbery, bribery, fraud, |
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0029|Their forces were already moving into the north country. |
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0030|I had faith in them. |
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0031|They were three hundred yards apart. |
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0032|Since then some mysterious force has been fighting us at every step. |
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0033|He unfolded a long typewritten letter, and handed it to Gregson. |
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0034|Men of Selden's stamp don't stop at women and children. |
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0035|He stopped, and Philip nodded at the horrified question in his eyes. |
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0036|She turned in at the hotel. |
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0037|I was the only one who remained sitting. |
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0038|We'll have to watch our chances. |
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0039|The ship should be in within a week or ten days. |
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0040|I suppose you wonder why she is coming up here. |
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0041|Meanwhile I'll go out to breathe a spell. |
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0042|How could he explain his possession of the sketch. |
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0043|It seemed nearer to him since he had seen and talked with Gregson. |
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0044|Her own betrayal of herself was like tonic to Philip. |
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0045|He moved away as quietly as he had come. |
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0046|The girl faced him, her eyes shining with sudden fear. |
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0047|Close beside him gleamed the white fangs of the wolf-dog. |
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0048|He looked at the handkerchief more, closely. |
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0049|Gregson was asleep when he re-entered the cabin. |
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0050|In spite of their absurdity the words affected Philip curiously. |
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0051|The lace was of a delicate ivory color, faintly tinted with yellow. |
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0052|It was a curious coincidence. |
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0053|Suddenly his fingers closed tightly over the handkerchief. |
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0054|There was nothing on the rock. |
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0055|Philip stood undecided, his ears strained to catch the slightest sound. |
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0056|Pearce's little eyes were fixed on him shrewdly. |
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0057|I have no idea, replied Philip. |
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0058|I came for information more out of curiosity than anything else. |
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0059|His immaculate appearance was gone. |
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0060|Anyway, no one saw her like that. |
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0061|Philip snatched at the letter which Gregson held out to him. |
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0062|The men stared into each other's face. |
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0063|Yes, it was a man who asked, a stranger. |
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0064|The fourth and fifth days passed without any developments. |
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0065|They closed now until his fingers were like cords of steel. |
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0066|He saw Jeanne falter for a moment. |
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0067|Surely I will excuse you, she cried. |
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0068|In a flash Philip followed its direction. |
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0069|It was his intention to return to Eileen and her father. |
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0070|He would first hunt up Gregson and begin his work there. |
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0071|What was the object of your little sensation. |
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0072|But who was Eileen's double. |
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0073|The promoter's eyes were heavy, with little puffy bags under them. |
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0074|And now, down there, Eileen was waiting for him. |
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0075|There has been a change, she interrupted him. |
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0076|The gray eyes faltered; the flush deepened. |
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0077|It is the fire, partly, she said. |
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0078|Then, and at supper, he tried to fathom her. |
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0079|It was a large canoe. |
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0080|What if Jeanne failed him. |
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0081|What if she did not come to the rock. |
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0082|His face was streaming with blood. |
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0083|A shadow was creeping over Pierre's eyes. |
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0084|Scarcely had he uttered the name when Pierre's closing eyes shot open. |
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0085|A trickle of fresh blood ran over his face. |
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0086|Death had come with terrible suddenness. |
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0087|Philip bent lower, and stared into the face of the dead man. |
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0088|He made sure that the magazine was loaded, and resumed his paddling. |
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0089|The nightglow was treacherous to shoot by. |
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0090|The singing voice approached rapidly. |
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0091|His blood grew hot with rage at the thought. |
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0092|He went down in midstream, searching the shadows of both shores. |
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0093|For a full minute he crouched and listened. |
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0094|He had barely entered this when he saw the glow of a fire. |
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0095|A big canvas tent was the first thing to come within his vision. |
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0096|Perhaps she had already met her fate a little deeper in the forest. |
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0097|Then you can arrange yourself comfortably among these robes in the bow. |
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0098|Shall I carry you. |
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0099|A maddening joy pounded in his brain. |
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0100|You must sleep, he urged. |
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0101|You, you would not keep the truth from me. |
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0102|He will follow us soon. |
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0103|But there came no promise from the bow of the canoe. |
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0104|She was sleeping under his protection as sweetly as a child. |
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0105|Only, it is so wonderful, so almost impossible to believe. |
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0106|The emotion which she had suppressed burst forth now in a choking sob. |
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0107|If you only could know how I thank you. |
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0108|He waded into the edge of the water and began scrubbing himself. |
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0109|Do you know that you are shaking my confidence in you. |
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0110|Much, replied Jeanne, as tersely. |
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0111|Instead, he joined her; and they ate like two hungry children. |
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0112|He was wounded in the arm. |
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0113|I suppose you picked that lingo up among the Indians. |
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0114|Her words sent a strange chill through Philip. |
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0115|He had no excuse for the feelings which were aroused in him. |
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0116|Was it the rendezvous of those who were striving to work his ruin. |
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0117|She added, with genuine sympathy in her face and voice. |
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0118|Pierre obeys me when we are together. |
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0119|Jeanne was turning the bow shoreward. |
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0120|My right foot feels like that of a Chinese debutante. |
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0121|They ate dinner at the fifth, and rested for two hours. |
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0122|Two years ago I gave up civilization for this. |
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0123|She had died from cold and starvation. |
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0124|It was Jeanne singing softly over beyond the rocks. |
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0125|He was determined now to maintain a more certain hold upon himself. |
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0126|Each day she became a more vital part of him. |
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0127|It was a temptation, but he resisted it. |
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0128|This one hope was destroyed as quickly as it was born. |
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0129|Her face was against his breast. |
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0130|She was his now, forever. |
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0131|Providence had delivered him through the maelstrom. |
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0132|A cry of joy burst from Philip's lips. |
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0133|Philip began to feel that he had foolishly overestimated his strength. |
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0134|He obeyed the pressure of her hand. |
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0135|I am going to surprise father, and you will go with Pierre. |
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0136|About him, everywhere, were the evidences of luxury and of age. |
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0137|Then he stepped back with a low cry of pleasure. |
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0138|In the picture he saw each moment a greater resemblance to Jeanne. |
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0139|He told himself that as he washed himself and groomed his disheveled clothes. |
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0140|Accept a father's blessing, and with it, this. |
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0141|It seems like a strange pointing of the hand of God. |
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0142|Such things had occurred before, he told Philip. |
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0143|Ah, I had forgotten, he exclaimed. |
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0144|But there was something even more startling than this resemblance. |
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0145|I have to be careful of them, as they tear very easily. |
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0146|Of course, that is uninteresting, she continued. |
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0147|A moment before he was intoxicated by a joy that was almost madness. |
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0148|Now these things had been struck dead within him. |
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0149|For an instant he saw Pierre drawn like a silhouette against the sky. |
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0150|Goodbye, Pierre, he shouted. |
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0151|And MacDougall was beyond the trail, with three weeks to spare. |
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0152|Philip thrust himself against it and entered. |
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0153|MacDougall tapped his forehead suspiciously with a stubby forefinger. |
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0154|He was smooth-shaven, and his hair and eyes were black. |
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0155|Won't you draw up, gentlemen. |
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0156|A strange fire burned in his eyes when Thorpe turned. |
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0157|He had worshiped her, as Dante might have worshiped Beatrice. |
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0158|Does that look good. |
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0159|They look as though he had been drumming a piano all his life. |
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0160|You want to go over and see his gang throw dirt. |
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0161|Take away their foreman and they wouldn't be worth their grub. |
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0162|That's the sub-foreman, explained Thorpe. |
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0163|Philip made no effort to follow. |
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0164|He came first a year ago, and revealed himself to Jeanne. |
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0165|They are to attack your camp tomorrow night. |
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0166|Two days ago Jeanne learned where her father's men were hiding. |
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0167|I was near the cabin, and saw you. |
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0168|Low bush whipped him in the face and left no sting. |
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0169|Suddenly Jeanne stopped for an instant. |
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0170|There was none of the joy of meeting in his face. |
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0171|And when you come back in a few days, bring Eileen. |
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0172|Gregson had left the outer door slightly ajar. |
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0173|The date was nearly eighteen years old. |
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0174|They were the presage of storm. |
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0175|Down there the earth was already swelling with life. |
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0176|For the first time in his life he was yearning for a scrap. |
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0177|She had been thoroughly and efficiently mauled. |
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0178|Every bone in her aged body seemed broken or dislocated. |
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0179|Tomorrow I'm going after that bear, he said. |
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0180|If not, let's say our prayers and go to bed. |
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0181|So cheer up, and give us your paw. |
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0182|This time he did not yap for mercy. |
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0183|And the air was growing chilly. |
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0184|Don't you see, I'm chewing this thing in two. |
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0185|The questions may have come vaguely in his mind. |
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0186|Like a flash he launched himself into the feathered mass of the owl. |
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0187|Ahead of them they saw a glimmer of sunshine. |
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0188|Two gigantic owls were tearing at the carcass. |
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0189|The big-eyed, clucking moose-birds were most annoying. |
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0190|Next to them the Canada jays were most persistent. |
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0191|For a time the exciting thrill of his adventure was gone. |
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0192|He did not rush in. |
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0193|It was edged with ice. |
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0194|He drank of the water cautiously. |
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0195|But a strange thing happened. |
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0196|He began to follow the footprints of the dog. |
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0197|Such a dog the wise driver kills, or turns loose. |
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0198|Sometimes her dreams were filled with visions. |
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0199|Thus had the raw wilderness prepared him for this day. |
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0200|He leapt again, and the club caught him once more. |
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0201|He cried, and swung the club wildly. |
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0202|She turned, fearing that Jacques might see what was in her face. |
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0203|They were following the shore of a lake. |
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0204|The wolf-dog thrust his gaunt muzzle toward him. |
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0205|From now on we're pals. |
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0206|He says he bought him of Jacques Le Beau. |
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0207|How much was it. |
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0208|Youth had come back to her, freed from the yoke of oppression. |
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0209|It was not a large lake, and almost round. |
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0210|Its diameter was not more than two hundred yards. |
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0211|It drowned all sound that brute agony and death may have made. |
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0212|Fresh cases, still able to walk, they clustered about the spokesman. |
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0213|Between him and the beach was the cane-grass fence of the compound. |
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0214|Besides, he was paid one case of tobacco per head. |
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0215|They die out of spite. |
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0216|The other felt a sudden wave of irritation rush through him. |
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0217|Oppressive as the heat had been, it was now even more oppressive. |
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0218|The ringing of the big bell aroused him. |
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0219|At first he puzzled over something untoward he was sure had happened. |
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0220|A dead man is of no use on a plantation. |
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0221|I don't know why you're here at all. |
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0222|What part of the United States is your home. |
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0223|My, I'm almost homesick for it already. |
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0224|She nodded, and her eyes grew soft and moist. |
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0225|I was brought up the way most girls in Hawaii are brought up. |
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0226|That came before my A B C's. |
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0227|It was the same way with our revolvers and rifles. |
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0228|But it contributed to the smash. |
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0229|The last one I knew was an overseer. |
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0230|Do you know any good land around here. |
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0231|The Resident Commissioner is away in Australia. |
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0232|I cannot follow you, she said. |
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0233|I never allow what can't be changed to annoy me. |
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0234|Why, the average review is more nauseating than cod liver oil. |
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0235|His voice was passionately rebellious. |
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0236|Don't you see I hate you. |
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0237|So Hughie and I did the managing ourselves. |
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0238|It happened to him at the Gallina Society in Oakland one afternoon. |
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0239|He cried in such genuine dismay that she broke into hearty laughter. |
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0240|Wash your hands of me. |
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0241|I think it's much nicer to quarrel. |
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0242|I saw it when she rolled. |
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0243|I only read the quotations. |
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0244|He was the soul of devotion to his employers. |
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0245|Out of his eighteen hundred, he laid aside sixteen hundred each year. |
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0246|You have heard always how he was the lover of the Princess Naomi. |
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0247|They ought to pass here some time today. |
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0248|I had been sad too long already. |
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0249|All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude of expectancy. |
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0250|He had observed the business life of Hawaii and developed a vaulting ambition. |
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0251|I may manage to freight a cargo back as well. |
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0252|O'Brien had been a clean living young man with ideals. |
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0253|He it was that lived to found the family of the Patino. |
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0254|Straight out they swam, their heads growing smaller and smaller. |
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0255|You won't die of malnutrition, be sure of that. |
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0256|See the length of the body and that elongated neck. |
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0257|They are coming ashore, whoever they are. |
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0258|Soaked in seawater they offset the heat rays. |
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0259|Think of investing in such an adventure. |
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0260|Nobody knew his history, they of the Junta least of all. |
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0261|I have been doubly baptized. |
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0262|They wouldn't be sweeping a big vessel like the Martha. |
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0263|Joan looked triumphantly at Sheldon, who bowed. |
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0264|And I hope you've got plenty of chain out, Captain Young. |
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0265|The discovery seemed to have been made on the spur of the moment. |
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0266|They handled two men already, both grub-thieves. |
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0267|Eli Harding asked, as Shunk started to follow. |
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0268|Now go ahead and tell me in a straightforward way what has happened. |
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0269|That's where they cut off the Scottish Chiefs and killed all hands. |
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0270|And after the bath a shave would not be bad. |
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0271|Now please give a plain statement of what occurred. |
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0272|You can take a vacation on pay. |
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0273|They are big trees and require plenty of room. |
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0274|And Raoul listened again to the tale of the house. |
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0275|There are no kiddies and half grown youths among them. |
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0276|Oolong Atoll was one hundred and forty miles in circumference. |
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0277|McCoy found a stifling, poisonous atmosphere in the pent cabin. |
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0278|It would give me nervous prostration. |
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0279|She said with chattering teeth. |
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0280|I'll be out of my head in fifteen minutes. |
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0281|I do not blame you for anything; remember that. |
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0282|If you mean to insinuate -- Brentwood began hotly. |
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0283|The woman in you is only incidental, accidental, and irrelevant. |
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0284|There was no forecasting this strange girl's processes. |
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0285|But what they want with your toothbrush is more than I can imagine. |
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0286|Give them their choice between a fine or an official whipping. |
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0287|Keep an eye on him. |
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0288|Those are my oysters, he said at last. |
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0289|They are not regular oyster pirates, Nicholas continued. |
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0290|One by one the boys were captured. |
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0291|The weeks had gone by, and no overt acts had been attempted. |
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0292|Here, in the midmorning, the first casualty occurred. |
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0293|They were deep in the primeval forest. |
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0294|He had been foiled in his attempt to escape. |
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0295|And twenty men could hold it with spears and arrows. |
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0296|Bassett was a fastidious man. |
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0297|There's a big English general right now whose name is Roberts. |
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0298|This tacit promise of continued acquaintance gave Saxon a little joy-thrill. |
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0299|I tell you I am disgusted with this adventure tomfoolery and rot. |
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0300|From my earliest recollection my sleep was a period of terror. |
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0301|But all my dreams violated this law. |
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0302|It is very plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis. |
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0303|But they make the mistake of ignoring their own duality. |
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0304|I graduated last of my class. |
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0305|They had no fixed values, to be altered by adjectives and adverbs. |
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0306|He was pressing beyond the limits of his vocabulary. |
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0307|Very early in my life, I separated from my mother. |
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0308|His infernal chattering worries me even now as I think of it. |
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0309|White Leghorns, said Mrs Mortimer. |
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0310|Massage under tension, was the cryptic reply. |
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0311|Therefore, hurrah for the game. |
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0312|It lived in perpetual apprehension of that quarter of the compass. |
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0313|Broken-Tooth yelled with fright and pain. |
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0314|Thus was momentum gained in the Younger World. |
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0315|Saxon waited, for she knew a fresh idea had struck Billy. |
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0316|We had been chased by them ourselves, more than once. |
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0317|He was a wise hyena. |
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0318|Production is doubling and quadrupling upon itself. |
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0319|And the Edinburgh Evening News says, with editorial gloom. |
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0320|With my strength I slammed it full into Red-Eye's face. |
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0321|The log on which Lop-Ear was lying got adrift. |
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0322|This is a common experience with all of us. |
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0323|He considered the victory already his and stepped forward to the meat. |
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0324|It was not Red-Eye's way to forego revenge so easily. |
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0325|Whiz-zip-bang. Lop-Ear screamed with sudden anguish. |
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0326|Cherokee identified himself with his instinct. |
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0327|They were less stooped than we, less springy in their movements. |
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0328|The Fire People, like ourselves, lived in caves. |
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0329|Ah, indeed. |
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0330|Red-Eye never committed a more outrageous deed. |
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0331|Poor little Crooked-Leg was terribly scared. |
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0332|Unconsciously, our yells and exclamations yielded to this rhythm. |
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0333|This is no place for you. |
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0334|He'll knock you off a few sticks in no time. |
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0335|Red-Eye swung back and forth on the branch farther down. |
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0336|So unexpected was my charge that I knocked him off his feet. |
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0337|Encouraged by my conduct, Big-Face became a sudden ally. |
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0338|The fighting had now become intermittent. |
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0339|They obeyed him, and went here and there at his commands. |
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0340|It was like the beating of hoofs. |
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0341|Why, doggone you all, shake again. |
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0342|Seventeen, no, eighteen days ago. |
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0343|You mean for this State, General, Alberta. |
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0344|He seemed to fill it with his tremendous vitality. |
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0345|She was trying to pass the apron string around him. |
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0346|Get down and dig in. |
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0347|They are greatly delighted with anything that is bright or giveth a sound. |
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0348|They only lifted seven hundred and fifty. |
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0349|It was simple, in its way, and no virtue of his. |
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0350|Is that Pat Hanrahan's mug looking hungry and willing. |
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0351|It was more like sugar. |
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0352|I'm sure going along with you all, Elijah. |
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0353|Here the explosion of mirth drowned him out. |
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0354|Fresh meat they failed to obtain. |
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0355|A burst of laughter was his reward. |
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0356|You don't catch me at any such foolishness. |
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0357|A month passed by, and Bonanza Creek remained quiet. |
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0358|They continued valiantly to lie, but the truth continued to outrun them. |
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0359|Earth and gravel seemed to fill the pan. |
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0360|But he no longer cared quite so much for that form of diversion. |
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0361|But he did not broach it, preferring to mature it carefully. |
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0362|Nope, not the slightest idea. |
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0363|It is not an attempt to smash the market. |
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0364|We have plenty of capital ourselves, and yet we want more. |
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0365|These rumors may even originate with us. |
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0366|A wildly exciting time was his during the week preceding Thursday the eighteenth. |
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0367|There is not an iota of truth in it, certainly not. |
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0368|I just do appreciate it without being able to express my feelings. |
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0369|In partnership with Daylight, the pair raided the San Jose Interurban. |
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0370|He saw all men in the business game doing this. |
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0371|It issued a rate of forty two dollars a car on charcoal. |
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0372|He saw only the effect in a general, sketchy way. |
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0373|Points of view, new ideas, life. |
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0374|But life's worth more than cash, she argued. |
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0375|The butchers and meat cutters refused to handle meat destined for unfair restaurants. |
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0376|Your price, my son, is just about thirty per week. |
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0377|This sound did not disturb the hush and awe of the place. |
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0378|That's why its boundaries are all gouged and jagged. |
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0379|How old are you, daddy. |
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0380|But in the canyons water was plentiful and also a luxuriant forest growth. |
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0381|My name's Ferguson. |
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0382|Daylight found himself charmed and made curious by the little man. |
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0383|To his surprise, her answer was flat and uncompromising. |
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0384|The farmer works the soil and produces grain. |
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0385|That's what Carnegie did. |
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0386|I can't argue with you, and you know that. |
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0387|Bob, growing disgusted, turned back suddenly and attempted to pass Mab. |
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0388|It was my idea to a tee. |
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0389|Mab, she said. |
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0390|I'll go over tomorrow afternoon. |
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0391|But he reconciled himself to it by an act of faith. |
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0392|There is that magnificent Bob, eating his head off in the stable. |
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0393|Already he had begun borrowing from the banks. |
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0394|It's the strap hangers that'll keep us from going under. |
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0395|As for himself, weren't the street railway earnings increasing steadily. |
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0396|A rising tide of fat had submerged them. |
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0397|Call me that again, he murmured ecstatically. |
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0398|In the car were Unwin and Harrison, while Jones sat with the chauffeur. |
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0399|And here's another idea. |
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0400|Manuel had one besetting sin. |
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0401|The man smiled grimly, and brought a hatchet and a club. |
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0402|Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again and leaped aside. |
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0403|His newborn cunning gave him poise and control. |
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0404|Perrault found one with head buried in the grub box. |
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0405|It seemed the ordained order of things that dogs should work. |
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0406|And that was the last of Francois and Perrault. |
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0407|Mercedes screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria. |
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0408|The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test. |
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0409|He could feel a new stir in the land. |
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0410|So we have to fit the boat throughout with oil lamps as well. |
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0411|It will break our hearts and our backs to hoist anchor by hand. |
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0412|There is another virtue in these bulkheads. |
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0413|But I am at the end of my resources. |
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0414|Now our figuring was all right. |
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0415|It lasted as a deterrent for two days. |
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0416|The added weight had a velocity of fifteen miles per hour. |
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0417|It is also an insidious, deceitful sun. |
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0418|The Portuguese boy crawled nearer and nearer. |
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0419|The Portuguese boy passed the Hawaiian. |
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0420|When I came to I was waving my hat and murmuring ecstatically. |
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0421|By golly, the boy wins. |
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0422|Halfway around the track one donkey got into an argument with its rider. |
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0423|McVeigh when he returns from a trip to Honolulu. |
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0424|Obviously, it was a disease that could be contracted by contact. |
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0425|Otherwise no restriction is put upon their seafaring. |
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0426|They do not know the length of time of incubation. |
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0427|Enters now the psychology of the situation. |
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0428|It was not exactly a deportation. |
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0429|Quick was the disappointment in his face, yet smiling was the acquiescence. |
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0430|Nevertheless we found ourselves once more in the high seat of abundance. |
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0431|Wada and Nakata were in a bit of a funk. |
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0432|The boy at the wheel lost his head. |
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0433|To her the bridge was tambo, which is the native for taboo. |
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0434|A half a case of tobacco was worth three pounds. |
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0435|What do you mean by this outrageous conduct. |
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0436|But Martin smiled a superior smile. |
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0437|By that answer my professional medical prestige stood or fell. |
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0438|At sea, Monday, March 16, 1908. |
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0439|At sea, Wednesday, March 18, 1908. |
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0440|Yes, sir, I corrected. |
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0441|Violent life and athletic sports had never appealed to me. |
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0442|You live on an income which your father earned. |
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0443|He was worth nothing to the world. |
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0444|Then you don't believe in altruism. |
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0445|The creative joy, I murmured. |
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0446|He deluged me, overwhelmed me with argument. |
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0447|Ah, it is growing dark and darker. |
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0448|I was Hump, cabin boy on the schooner Ghost. |
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0449|A sinewy hand, dripping with water, was clutching the rail. |
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0450|No man ate of the seal meat or the oil. |
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0451|I noticed blood spouting from Kerfoot's left hand. |
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0452|Three oilers and a fourth engineer, was his greeting. |
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0453|Eighteen hundred, he calculated. |
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0454|The sharp voice of Wolf Larsen aroused me. |
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0455|I obeyed, and a minute or two later they stood before him. |
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0456|But it won't continue, she said with easy confidence. |
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0457|What I saw I could not at first believe. |
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0458|The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell. |
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0459|There's too much of the schoolboy in me. |
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0460|I had forgotten their existence. |
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0461|Ah, we were very close together in that moment. |
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0462|But she swung obediently on her heel into the wind. |
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0463|They are his tongue, by which he makes his knowledge articulate. |
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0464|Between the rush of the cascades, streaks of rust showed everywhere. |
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0465|He'll never do a tap of work the whole Voyage. |
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0466|Captain West may be a Samurai, but he is also human. |
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0467|And so early in the voyage, too. |
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0468|In the matter of curry she is a sheer genius. |
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0469|The eastern heavens were equally spectacular. |
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0470|He spat it out like so much venom. |
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0471|I saw Mr Pike nod his head grimly and sarcastically. |
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0472|He is too keenly intelligent, too sharply sensitive, successfully to endure. |
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0473|The night was calm and snowy. |
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0474|I sailed third mate in the little Vampire before you were born. |
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0475|His outstretched arm dropped to his side, and he paused. |
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0476|At this moment I felt a stir at my shoulder. |
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0477|Wada, Louis, and the steward are servants of Asiatic breed. |
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0478|Also, she has forbidden them smoking their pipes in the after-room. |
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0479|I tried to read George Moore last night, and was dreadfully bored. |
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0480|Tom Spink has a harpoon. |
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0481|Nimrod replied, with a slight manifestation of sensitiveness. |
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0482|And their chief virtue lies in that they will never wear out. |
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0483|Beyond dispute, Corry Hutchinson had married Mabel Holmes. |
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0484|No-sir-ee. |
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0485|Each insult added to the value of the claim. |
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0486|For the rest, he was a mere automaton. |
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0487|The river bared its bosom, and snorting steamboats challenged the wilderness. |
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0488|Their love burned with increasing brightness. |
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0489|They were artists, not biologists. |
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0490|Both Johnny and his mother shuffled their feet as they walked. |
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0491|And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied. |
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0492|Burnt out like the crater of a volcano. |
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0493|The boy, O'Brien, was specially maltreated. |
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0494|O'Brien took off his coat and bared his right arm. |
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0495|He bore no grudges and had few enemies. |
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0496|And Tom King patiently endured. |
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0497|King took every advantage he knew. |
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0498|The lines were now very taut. |
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0499|And right there I saw and knew it all. |
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0500|Who the devil gave it to you to be judge and jury. |
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0501|You're joking me, sir, the other managed to articulate. |
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0502|Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send a fellow to Molokai. |
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0503|His beady black eyes saw bargains where other men saw bankruptcy. |
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0504|He was an athlete and a giant. |
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0505|We fished sharks on Niihau together. |
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0506|The Claudine was leaving next morning for Honolulu. |
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0507|In short, my joyous individualism was dominated by the orthodox bourgeois ethics. |
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0508|Soon shall it be thrust back from off prostrate humanity. |
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0509|Yet, in accordance with Ernest's test of truth, it worked. |
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0510|Much more Ernest told them of themselves and of his disillusionment. |
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0511|There is more behind this than a mere university ideal. |
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0512|No, it is a palace, wherein there are many servants. |
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0513|We must give ourselves and not our money alone. |
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0514|We are consumed in our own flesh-pots. |
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0515|But here amongst ourselves let us speak out. |
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0516|Also, there was awe in their faces. |
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0517|Out of abstractions Ernest had conjured a vision and made them see it. |
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0518|Illuminating oil was becoming all profit. |
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0519|Such an act was in direct violation of the laws of the land. |
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0520|He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem. |
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0521|Without them he could not run his empire. |
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0522|For such countries nothing remained but reorganization. |
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0523|They could not continue their method of producing surpluses. |
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0524|At once would be instituted a dozen cooperative commonwealth states. |
|
0525|The Oligarchy wanted violence, and it set its agents provocateurs to work. |
|
0526|Nowhere did the raw earth appear. |
|
0527|The lush vegetation of that sheltered spot make a natural shield. |
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0528|Men who endure it, call it living death. |
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0529|As I say, he had tapped the message very rapidly. |
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0530|Ask him, I laughed, then turned to Pasquini. |
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0531|In what bucolic school of fence he had been taught was beyond imagining. |
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0532|May drought destroy your crops. |
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0533|Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse. |
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0534|But Johannes could, and did. |
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0535|A new preacher and a new doctrine come to Jerusalem. |
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0536|He would destroy all things that are fixed. |
|
0537|He was an enthusiast and a desert dweller. |
|
0538|What Pascal glimpsed with the vision of a seer, I have lived. |
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0539|I should like to engage just for one whole life in that. |
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0540|Yea, so are all the lesser animals of today clean. |
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0541|The Warden with a quart of champagne. |
|
0542|Without a doubt, some of them have dinner engagements. |
|
0543|I had been born with no organic, chemical predisposition toward alcohol. |
|
0544|He may anticipate the day of his death. |
|
0545|The Italian rancho was a bachelor establishment. |
|
0546|I lost my balance and pitched head foremost into the ooze. |
|
0547|Men like Joe Goose dated existence from drunk to drunk. |
|
0548|Also, churches and preachers I had never known. |
|
0549|Do you know that we weigh every pound of coal we burn. |
|
0550|This also became part of the daily schedule. |
|
0551|All an appearance can know is mirage. |
|
0552|Yet he dreams he is immortal, I argue feebly. |
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0553|I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
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0554|Jack London, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu. |
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0555|Jerry was so secure in his nook that he did not roll away. |
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0556|Why, he's bought forty pounds of goods from you already. |
|
0557|The last refugee had passed. |
|
0558|And the foundation stone of service, in his case, was obedience. |
|
0559|Peace be unto you and grace before the Lord. |
|
0560|His mouth opened; words shaped vainly on his lips. |
|
0561|Bill lingered, contemplating his work with artistic appreciation. |
|
0562|What the flaming. |
|
0563|Mrs McFee's jaws brought together with a snap. |
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0564|Then it is as I said, Womble announced with finality. |
|
0565|With them were Indians, also three other men. |
|
0566|Dennin's hands were released long enough for him to sign the document. |
|
0567|Now Irvine was a man of impulse, a poet. |
|
0568|He was just bursting with joy, joy over what. |
|
0569|At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe. |
|
0570|Behind him lay the thousand-years-long road across all Siberia and Russia. |
|
0571|He had forgotten to build a fire and thaw out. |
|
0572|I never saw anything like her in my life. |
|
0573|There was no law on the Yukon save what they made for themselves. |
|
0574|Good business man, Curly, O'Brien was saying. |
|
0575|There weren't any missions, and he was the man to know. |
|
0576|And the big Persian knew of his existence before he did of hers. |
|
0577|Once the jews harp began emitting its barbaric rhythms, Michael was helpless. |
|
0578|But we'll just postpone this. |
|
0579|There was the Emma Louisa. |
|
0580|This is my fifth voyage. |
|
0581|It was this proposition that started the big idea in Daughtry's mind. |
|
0582|Daughtry elaborated on the counting trick by bringing Cocky along. |
|
0583|Enjoy it he did, but principally for Steward's sake. |
|
0584|I have long noted your thirst unquenchable. |
|
0585|Wonder if he's a lion dog, Charles suggested. |
|
0586|We don't see ourselves as foolish. |
|
0587|He had comparatively no advantages at first. |
|
0588|He had proved it today, with his amateurish and sophomoric productions. |
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0589|I was sick once -- typhoid. |
|
0590|In a way he is my protege. |
|
0591|We are both children together. |
|
0592|It's only his indigestion I find fault with. |
|
0593|She'd make a good wife for the cashier. |
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