unearths some literary gems.
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The man allowed his monocle to fall, more or less of its own accord, to the full extent of its ribbon, where it swung, pendulum-wise, at the end of its moiré ribbon, till the law of Newton and gravity took over.
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"What I possess...is the characteristic of the Complete Artist: I will do anything for money."
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[This pedestrian passage presented my mind's eye with a fanciful--and much improved, imho--image, until I realized that "rowing" here meant quarreling, and not oaring. I'd been imagining one of those romantic boating picnics taken to the next level!]
Sanson and his wife were still rowing, as they had been continually since halfway through the expensive dinner that had been her birthday treat.
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"With that kind of dough, he can pull up the drawbridge, lower the portcullis, shut himself in his ivory tower and cock a snook at the world. Or...he could buy himself a paradise island in the South Seas and cock his snook from there."
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