unearths some literary gems.
From The Blood Card, by Elly Griffiths:
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The general's eyebrows now seemed permanently suspended in the air.
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Petre took out a large white handkerchief and unfolded it so slowly and deliberately that Edgar thought, for one wild moment, that he was about to perform a magic trick. Instead he wiped his brow and then carefully refolded the handkerchief.
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"I'm going upstairs to make coffee....you stay here and chat."
This, of course, temporarily robbed them both of the power of speech.
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An ice cream van trundled mournfully past playing "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts."
