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Fielding Henry - Tom Jones
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... and industry to maintain himself and his wife in this. There were not, perhaps, many more unhappy persons than poor Partridge. He had lost the best part of his income by the evidence of his wife, and yet was daily upbraided by her for having, among other things, been the ...
Trollope Anthony - Ayala's Angel
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... case? It soon was the case. The hounds were at work in a large wood in which she was told they might possibly pass the best part of the day, and it was not long before the men had dispersed themselves, some on this side some on that, and she ...
Trollope Anthony - Can You Forgive Her?
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... my dear friends now. Why should you escape altogether?&cdq;

Alice could not escape altogether, and therefore was closeted with Lady Midlothian for the best part of an hour. &odq;Did Lady Macleod read to you what I wrote?&cdq; the Countess asked,

&odq;Yes—that is, ...
Bierce Ambrose - Can Such Things Be?
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... were underground in Oak Hill Cemetery, where, indeed, was a colony of them powerful enough to resist the encroachment of surrounding tribes and hold the best part of the grounds. But about the ghost: One night, about three years after the death of Hetty Parlow, a number of the young ...
Conan Doyle Arthur - The Poison Belt
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... past two." "And you hired a cab?" "That was so." "How far do you suppose it is to the station?" "Well, I should reckon the best part of two miles." "So how long do you think it took you?" "Well, half an hour, maybe, with that asthmatic in front." "So ...
Plutarque - Caius Marius
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... settle and inhabit, in the same way as they had heard the Celti before them had driven out the Tyrrhenians, and possessed themselves of the best part of Italy. Having had no commerce with the southern nations, and travelling over a wide extent of country, no man knew what people ...
Plutarque - Antony
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... them. Upon this, Brutus and his whole party left the city, and Caesar's friends joined themselves to Antony. Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, lodged with him the best part of the property to the value of four thousand talents; he got also into his hands all Caesar's papers wherein were contained journals ...
Davis Richard - Adventures And Letters Of Richard Harding Davis
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... real chorus girls from the Gaiety mixed in with leading ladies like Miss Jeffries and Miss Hanbury, who could not keep in step. But the best part of it was the pantomime. Ellaline came up a trap with a diamond dress and her hair down her back and electric lights ...
Phillips David G. - The Cost
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... You get up too late, old man. My grandfather used to say that only a drone lies abed after two in the morning, wasting the best part of the day. You ought to turn in, say, at half-past nine and rise in time to get your hardest work out ...
Norris Frank - Blix
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... all day, and then sit down and write all evening." "I WISH you could get off the 'Times,said Blix. "just giving the best part of your life to hack work, and NOW interfering with your novel. I know you could do better work on your novel if you didn't ...
Defoe Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
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... with Courage. I was about three Months hedging in the first Piece, and till I had done it I tether'd the three Kids in the best part of it, and us'd them to feed as near me as possible to make them familiar; and very often I would go and ...

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