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Edie pointed to the freaky, frondiferous doll.
M. L. Rio • Graveyard Shift: A Novella
Ernest’s zest for life was infectious.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
More people who did not belong, she thought wearily, more defilement and chatter. Last year one of the girls had worn a two-piece bathing costume and Miss Somerville’s early morning viewing through her binoculars had revealed the completely exposed midriff of a girl from Surbiton.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
Flourishing seemed wrong in a man so disheartened as he was.
Marilynne Robinson • Jack (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.
Robertson Davies • Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy)
Bill Tomson the poolhall boy had found her in a bar and took her to a hotel; pride taking over his sense he invited the whole gang to come up and see her. Everybody sat around talking with Carolyn. Neal did nothing but look out the window. Then when everybody left Neal merely looked at Carolyn, pointed at his wrist, made the sign “four” (meaning he
... See moreJack Kerouac • On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Don’t drop a bollock, Charlie, she’s fond of saying,