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One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be.
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She ate up London and spat it out, and now she's recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,' Jack said.
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a tiny room, furnished in early MFI, of which every surface was covered in china ornaments and plaster knick-knacks whose only virtue was that they were small, and therefore of limited individual horribleness. Cumulatively, they were like an infestation. Little vases, ashtrays, animals, shepherdesses, tramps, boots, tobys, ruined castles, civic shields of seaside towns, thimbles, bambis, pink goggle-eyed puppies sitting up and begging, scoo..
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Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.
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schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the
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the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.
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He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and biting down was a not entirely pleasant experience that could result in doing the nose trick with tomato seeds.
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God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless us all - that's quite another thing! John Byrom: To an Officer in the Army
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mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them again. And did you ever, ever get over losing your mum? It seemed absurd after so long, and at his age, to be seized with such a yearning to go home; but she was gone, beyond reach, and a grown man wasn't allowed to feel like this. The
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leading the way was his boss, Commander 'Dave' Carpenter, in a suit so sharp you could peel mangoes with it.
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One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.
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Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of something pink.' She chewed again. 'I am eating, aren't I?' she appealed for reassurance. 'It's so hard to tell without some sensory input, like taste or texture.
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Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. 'You know my opinion of buttermilk,' he said. 'I'll wait for the ale.
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somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.
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Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn't have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He wasn't stupid by many a long mile. But this Bates bloke, he was college educated and everything. Smart as a whip. Well, he
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The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lines of discontent drew down her mouth corners, and her skin had the dry and unnourished look of a woman without a lover. Her
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The Yorkshire was something of a landmark, and facing it across the river was another, Botterill's Horse Repository, a startling and ornate building in red and yellow brick. Here the gentlemen who rode or drove into York could leave their horses. The stalls were arranged on several storeys, with ramps leading up from floor to floor - the equine equivalent, Teddy supposed, of one of those new blocks of 'flats' one heard about in London - and..
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Of course one has to give diplomacy a chance, but it would be better for us, if we are going to have to fight them, for the Cabinet to start now before the Boers are ready for us.' 'Well, public opinion is all for war, for what that's worth.' 'The Cabinet would never be swayed by public opinion.' 'Perhaps not, but with that dreadful newspaper whipping people up into a blood lust, we shall have demonstrations in the street before long if we ..
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Instead, the Daily Mail's editor picked out only the 'brightest' items of news, digested them, and rewrote them so as to turn them into 'stories'. These always had to be short, strongly prejudiced in some direction, and either sentimental or sensational. The headlines were calculated to provoke, rather than merely to suggest what the paragraph was about; scandals and crime figured largely in its pages, and for preference there must always b..
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True, Mama, but he'll find it a difficult job to govern the country with nothing but the High Tories to support him. And whatever you think of their politics, Huskisson and Palmerston are very able men the country can ill afford to lose. William Lamb was doing a good job in Ireland, too.' 'Poor William Lamb,' Lucy said -- his name always seemed to couple itself with the epithet quite automatically. 'He needs office to keep his mind from his..
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I could refer you to a colleague who specialises in such things - or, as it happens, a clinic has just opened in Holloway to advise on birth control and dispense devices. You might find that more anonymous. Have you heard of Marie Stopes?' 'Didn't she write a book? I seem to remember something - didn't she say that women and men should be equal in marriage? It sounded rather sensible to me.' 'She believes that a woman cannot be free unless ..
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Asquith, in the House, had shocked many people by opposing the franchise for women on the grounds that woman was not the female of the human species but a distinct and inferior species of her own, and disqualified from voting in the same way that a rabbit was disqualified. When it was reported there were angry letters and much protest in the press, together with several satirical cartoons about the lapine origins of various public figures. ..
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