unearths some literary gems.
From A House in the Country, by Ruth Adam:
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I reflected indignantly that it was altogether too much to expect me to stand-in for a whole staff and then find that the dog apparently expected me to do his barking for him as well.
[So much for that figure of speech, "I'm not going to keep a dog and bark myself"!]
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While they were with us, it seemed as though two different kinds of story had got mixed up in the same book-cover.