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Examples

• They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He bucked her out along the shore Qf the lake and as soon as she was reasonable they went on back along the trail. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yes,' said Sam, 'and I vish they'd bring out the have-his-carcase. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In textile fabrics they have never been surpassed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These good people were absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. Plato. The Republic.
• Which of them had a step so quiet, a hand so gentle, but I should have heard or felt her, if she had approached or touched me in a day-sleep? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Look to them, Pablo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And who are the devoted band, and where will he procure them? Plato. The Republic.
• Let them turn into mechanisms, let them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Let them come! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What did you burn 'em for? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But there's not a dozen men amoong 'em, ma'am—a dozen? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It's policy to give 'em line enough, and there's no objection to that. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why, take a look at 'em and see. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Could you commission any friend of yours to bring me a pair, if you've no further use for 'em? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Twould please 'em well at such a time! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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