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“going about with a huge, heavy arm or dragging along a grossly disfigured leg. Men and women wore the lava-lava. “It’s a very indecent costume,” said Mrs. Davidson. “Mr. Davidson thinks it should be prohibited by law. How can you expect people to be moral when they wear nothing but a strip of red cotton round their loins?” “It’s suitable enough to the climate,” said the doctor, wiping the sweat off his head. Now that they were on land the heat, though it was so early in the morning, was already oppressive. Closed in by its hills, not a breath of air came in to Pago-Pago. “In our islands,” Mrs. Davidson went on in her high-pitched tones, “we’ve practically eradicated the lava-lava. A few old men still continue to wear it, but that’s all. The women have all taken to the Mother Hubbard,”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Rain and Other South Sea Stories

“to”
― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

“even let him know she was going in writing,”
― Corina Bomann, The Moonlit Garden

“everything, but”
― Corina Bomann, The Moonlit Garden

“absolutely superb, thought Peter Walsh, swaying”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Below, in that cupboard.” As he measured spices, I was aware of a sense of”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

“He has trained himself not to sleep; he is leading teams of surveyors outside the city walls; his soldiers at the Throat Cutter have launched”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“and”
― Lori Nelson Spielman, The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

“countries are looking for them?” Twelve-year-old Sarah glowered at me. Her seven-year-old brother edged behind her fearfully. Mrs Hudson set the kettle down”
― Laurie R. King, Mary Russell's War And Other Stories of Suspense

“parental”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lord Peter Wimsey Series: Volume I