unearths some literary gems.
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He was only ten, and small for his age, yet he appeared to have the power of being in two rooms at the same time while making a nerve-racking noise in another.
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"I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, but that doesn't matter."
[It matters to me--because I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, too!]
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Miss Leonard invoked the name of Mike.
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He had a red, weather-beaten face with a suspicion of side-whiskers....
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[A sort of Henry Jamesian sentence construction from PGW.]
While he was trying to make clear to himself just what it was about Claire's voice that he had not liked he was granted the opportunity of analysing by means of direct observation its failure to meet his vocal ideals, for at this moment it spoke behind him.
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It was a new idea, and he bent himself to the Fletcherizing of it.
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