unearths some literary gems.
From The Case of the Lonely Heiress, by Erle Stanley Gardner:
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[Rhetorical inflation resisted]
"Mr. Mason... You can count on my loyalty one hundred percent. One thousand percent!"
"One hundred is enough."
[I wonder what she's going to do with the other 900 percent now. "Great, then I can still go and be loyal to nine more people!" (:v>]
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[Gender-Specific Goat-Getting dept.]
"But what gets my nanny goat is to have him go traipsing around after this brunette and pulling the line that he's merely following his lawyer's advice."
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[Flapping dept.]
The hot air billowed the bathrobe into flapping motion.
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"Are you reading my mind?" Mason asked.
She said, "I'm two paragraphs ahead of you."
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[Surprise Appearance of the Ice Follies in the Denouement dept.]
"Della, I think this calls for a celebration. The Ice Follies are here this week. Get four of the best seats available...."
