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...I suppose I need not say that I could penetrate no further into this, Fu-Manchu's latest plot, than the drugging of Norris West with hashish? Of his having been so drugged with Indian hemp-that is, converted temporarily into a maniac-...
— Nov 22, 2012 06:04PM

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She threw open her cloak, and it is a literal fact that i rubbed my eyes, half believing that I dreamed. For beneath she was arrayed in gossamer silk which more indicated the perfect lines of her slim shape; wore a jeweled girdle and barbaric ornaments; was a figure fit for he walled garden of Stamboul - a figure amazing, incomprehensible, in the prosaic setting of my rooms.
— Nov 12, 2012 02:50PM

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Today we may seek romance and ail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway. (12)
— Oct 30, 2012 12:37AM