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"Much YOU know of east winds, my ugly darling," said I, kissing her in my admiration—I coul
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
I should have been looked upon as a brute in the house and in all the neighborhood, and so I kept her in my rooms, and she had my bed for six weeks.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant
Very likely if I had succeeded in killing him, I might have relied upon the Indian cure and been disappointed.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding
I laugh to myself, then, when I think of the store I keep, here in my bower.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch
“How shall I know he is mine?
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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