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career has a function essentially dramatic
It comes to this, that the picture which Harry Richmond gives of his career has a function essentially dramatic; it has a part to perform in the story, a part it must undertake as a whole, over and above its pictorial charge.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

call her away from earth did
I then asked her, if God should see fit to call her away from earth, did she think she was prepared for so awful a change.
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

Charles Hare a famous English divine
Julius Charles Hare , a famous English divine and theological writer, was born at Valdagno, Italy, September 13, 1795, and died in England, January 23, 1855.
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

cards Harry and for every day
"I'll stand by the cards, Harry, and for every day you win, I'll walk a chalk line—so help me God!"
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives

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