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"The girl next to her noticed her state of mind."Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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When they heard the sound of the horn beeping in the station wagon he used to make deliveries they went outside.Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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If I walk just a few more blocks, I can be at his office, he thought, but he never would have."A Little Life
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"And yet, so often death might solve a problem."Appointment With Death - Agatha Christie
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"For nine days the family huddled in the cabin with their mother's body, until finally negotiators ended the standoff and Randy Weaver was arrested."Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
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From a doted-upon mistress I immediately turned into the most passionate lover: I encunted Delbène, I set the scraper going. Juliette by Marquis de Sade
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Burroughs also visited Leary in Cambridge, where he proved to be a less than satisfactory houseguest. The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents
Page75, sentence 2
"I saw him coming out of the brush with that oldest girl of Tinidad's, only Sunday night."Death Comes For The Archbishop
(Willa Cather)
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Nurse Joan Spiers looked up, happy to see her.(The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg)
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Early on in their marriage, they had both agreed that dinner was for conversation, not for watching television.Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark
page 300, sentence 3
She was far more nervous than she had been before any of the research presentations she had given in history seminars. The Summons by Dennis McCallum
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The poor devil has made her a wealthy woman; and nonetheless she has made him the most miserable of men. Juliette by Marquis de Sade
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Wainwright and I shared a cab downtown.The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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"She peeped inside, hoping to find the room so full that no one would notice her."The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
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Not that she was aloof; she was, in fact, friendly in disposition.The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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Patel hesitated for a long time before answering, and while he did so Bruno said nothing.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Page 394, last sentence
"He landed on his back, and suddenly the kid was on top of him, a knee painfully pressed into the captain's chest and a hand around his throat, squeezing so tightly it almost closed off his windpipe."Scythe
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'I was used to Lyon's affairs by the time you came along.'Gypsy by Carole Mortimer
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"It was, said the author Tom Wolfe, the undeclared motto of the 1970s: 'Let's talk about me!'How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better Or Worse: The 70s - The Decade That Brought You Modern Life - For Better or Worse - By: David Frum
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He measures twenty inches long, weighs seven pounds nine ounces.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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"He swung round and hurled a second grenade to his left, a definite run-out, because the enemy's firepower suddenly dried up."The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
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It was the first telegram issued from the temporary War Department headquarters at the Petersen house.Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
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"But two centuries after the publication of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' , there were still no principles of economics that could tell one how the parties to a potential bargain would interact, or how they would split up the pie."A Beautiful Mind
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Jack was fifty-six, with the burly body of the wrestler he had been in his early twenties.Next: page 8, sentence 8
She loved jokes as much as the rest of the family, and laughed about her own limitations, but she refused to retaliate or compete in the teasing.Letters between Six Sisters: The Mitfords
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Keep the area around the door leading to the house clear of things and clean. The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter
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"So is that what Tom is accused of---murdering his brother?"The Sins of the Father
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"I was voted Most Likely to Rule the World in a Scary Way."Beauty Queens
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If you constantly swing from procrastination to frantic activity, then your time is cluttered. Clutter Control: Useful Tips for Getting Rid of the Mess by Susan Wright
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I f the bell rings, wh y should we run ?Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
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It was born of the realization that there were castes within the displaced.What Is the What by Dave Eggers
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"You have to transfer to a good school, Renita."The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
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"They depicted various strange scenes: a shirtless man carrying a huge tuning fork on his burdened back; a stone fracturing and shooting forth bolts of lightning; crowds running from a nasty vermiform creature in the form of a double helix that spiraled out of the ground."Scythe
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Dobkin put his back to the wall on his right and sidestepped in, the knife at his side ready to move.By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille
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In the bathroom she discovers, on her underpants, a solid streak of brownish blood.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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