unearths some literary gems.
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[Re. the ballet audience on a dazzling opening night.]
Not a monocle remained in place.
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[A Russian Anglophile gets it slightly wrong.]
"For he's a jolly good sparrow," he carolled.
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"If I were a horse I'd eat that hat."
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"And," she eyelashed, "he can deny me nothing."
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