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Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she wa...

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She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to sch...

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Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the ...

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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is u...

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You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We a...

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Hilaire BellocOn Nothing and Kindred Subjects

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and h...

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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when i...

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It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, aft...

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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperce...

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