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Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsythes have seen that charming and instructive
sight - an upper middle class family in full plumage.
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I was brought up on three dead languages - Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish (some consider the last not
a language at all) - and in a culture that developed in Babylon: the Talmud.
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In that place, where they tore the night shade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the
Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his
way towards the lagoon.
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To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía
was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
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When the lands and goods of Ivar Gjesling the younger, of Sundbu, were divided after his death in 1306,
his lands in Sil of Gudbrandsdal fell to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband Lavrans Björngulfsön.
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Mother died today.
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Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am
very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.
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From behind the screen of bushes which surrounded the spring, Popeye watched the man
drinking.
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The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in Thirties was an immediate hit.
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It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
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"And - and - what comes next?"
"Oh, yes, yes, what the dickens does come next? C'est la question, ma très chère demoiselle!"
Frau Consul Buddenbrooks shot a glance at her husband and came to the rescure of her daughter.
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On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind
seemed to carry on their singing.
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In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the
fig trees, Siddharta, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend Govinda.
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How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
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Do not hope, Nathaniel, to find God here or there - but everywhere.
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The tower of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and
delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.
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He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun of Zam-Zammeh on her brick platform opposite the old
Ajaibgher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum.
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The Melekhov farm was right at the end of the Tatarsk village. The gate of the cattle-yard opened northward towards
the Don.
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It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions
which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down
my suitcase, take my ticket out of my coat pocket, pick up my suitcase, hand in my ticket, cross over to the newstand,
buy the evening newspaper, go outside and signal for a taxi.
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