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Having a little experiment, eh?" Manderton nodded without replying.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
“We have a large entertainment every month, and every fortnight a reading, and all the confusion gives me a headache.
— from Jack 1877 by Alphonse Daudet
“Yes, but if it is picked up with half a dozen holes in it, you may be sure that they will be down here, and like enough every man who has used this place will be arrested; you know that when there are twenty men in a job the chances are that one will slip his neck out of the halter by turning King's evidence.”
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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