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38 | The Invisible Man- A Grotesque Romance.txt | 29 | is only slightly refracted or reflected or indeed affected in any way. It is almost as invisible as a jet of coal gas or hydrogen is in air. And for precisely the same reason!" "Yes," said Kemp, "that is pretty plain sailing." "And here is another fact you will know to be true. If a sheet of glass is smashed, Kemp, and... | 1 |
63 | Hannah Whitten - The Foxglove King-Orbit (2023).txt | 19 | like an intruder. For the first time, the smaller woman seemed to notice her. Her smile brightened. “And this is your cousin, right? I didn’t know you had one.” “Third cousin.” Lore offered her hand, reciting the backstory she and Gabriel had come up with in their apartments while he buttoned the back of her dress and ... | 0 |
86 | Tessa-Bailey-Unfortunately-Yours.txt | 93 | and brushed his knuckle along the outside of her knee, which turned out to be a big mistake, because Lord God almighty, she was smooth and that kneecap would fit right into his palm. Focus. “Are you nervous because Ingram Meyer is going to be there? Because we’ve got this, Natalie. By the end of the night, he’s going t... | 0 |
76 | Love Theoretically.txt | 11 | someone dipped their post-gym crotch in a bucket of citrus disinfectant. There’s the pitter-patter of a dripping faucet, and my reflection in the full-body mirror is a lie: the slender woman in the sheath dress is too flustered, too livid, too red to be mild Elsie Hannaway of the accommodating ways. I turn around. Jack... | 0 |
78 | Pineapple Street.txt | 27 | backpack to the ground, bucking back against the wall, crying so loud you have to clamp your glove over her mouth. She obviously can’t handle this, and so many lives would be collateral damage. Her own, too, though she doesn’t understand that. What life will she have if this gets out? What life will her parents have? T... | 0 |
79 | Quietly-Hostile.txt | 33 | you really wear something like that to just lie around the house? There’s a scene in which Carrie is sitting on the side of her bed, balancing her laptop on her knees, and her hair is up in this cascading ponytail, and she’s wearing the Robe, and I feel like it’s my duty to tell you that I am writing this book in an or... | 0 |
96 | We-Could-Be-So Good.txt | 82 | they were at fault.” “I know.” Nick throws his pen onto the desk. That evening, they filed a depressingly basic article stating the bare facts and repeating the police commissioner’s promises to get to the bottom of the missing evidence. “What kind of bullshit is it that they put this statement out at five on a Friday ... | 0 |
61 | Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries.txt | 88 | would call them in your language. They are a kind of faerie fox, black and golden together, which grow larger than horses. My brothers and sisters and I would crowd round the fire to watch him weave nets from brambles and spidersilk. And all the moorbeasts and hag-headed deer would cower at the sight of those nets, tho... | 0 |
75 | Lisa-See-Lady-Tan_s-Circle-of-Women.txt | 55 | people listed in these pages on this topic, but perhaps none were more important or more poignant than the ones I had with Marina Bokelman, folklorist, healer, family friend, and second mother to me. In our last conversation before she decided to leave this life, she spoke at length about Hildegard von Bingen, a Cathol... | 0 |
95 | USS-Lincoln.txt | 19 | it with confidence … with bluster.” “Embedded within the human warships’ EMP discharges, recently discovered and unbeknownst to us, lay a form of electromagnetic radiation known as resonance emissions. This particular frequency holds a unique property: it has the ability to interact with the intricate energy fields tha... | 0 |
3 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.txt | 64 | ten CENTS back, I'd call it squah, en be glad er de chanst." "Well, it's all right anyway, Jim, long as you're going to be rich again some time or other." "Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'." CHAPTER IX. I WANTED to go... | 1 |
69 | In the Lives of Puppets.txt | 84 | any machines Vic had ever seen before. They were squat and uniform, metal boxes on wheels dripping with oil and crusted with flecks of rust. Their arms looked like versions of Rambo’s spindly limbs, though far bigger, their pincers capable of crushing. Each was numbered. Vic saw TLK-97A and TLK-97B and TLK-97D4G. They ... | 0 |
41 | The Secret Garden.txt | 8 | out o' th' black earth after a bit." "What will they be?" asked Mary. "Crocuses an' snowdrops an' daffydowndillys. Has tha' never seen them?" "No. Everything is hot, and wet, and green after the rains in India," said Mary. "And I think things grow up in a night." "These won't grow up in a night," said Weatherstaff. "Th... | 1 |
93 | The-Silver-Ladies-Do-Lunch.txt | 49 | said. ‘Only…’ Fergal took another slurp. ‘Only, I was very grateful after you made the Sunday dinner for me… I really enjoyed myself.’ ‘I enjoyed it too,’ Josie admitted. ‘And the barbecue – I had a nice time there too… apart from the business with Dangerous Dave, and that was really to do with him having drunk too muc... | 0 |
33 | The Age of Innocence.txt | 81 | the sexton, had come out of the vestry and placed himself with his best man on the chancel step of Grace Church. The signal meant that the brougham bearing the bride and her father was in sight; but there was sure to be a considerable interval of adjustment and consultation in the lobby, where the bridesmaids were alre... | 1 |
82 | Robyn-Harding-The-Drowning-Woman.txt | 45 | connected with this guy and he helped me. I had to go on the dark web!” She sounds thrilled, even proud. “We have to send passport-quality photos. It’s not cheap but they’ll be totally legit.” “I don’t have much money,” I say, thinking of the stash in my trunk that never seems to grow. “It’s fine,” she says, handing me... | 0 |
90 | The-Lost-Bookshop.txt | 31 | We all have crap parts and good parts inside, but when you meet someone who makes you realise that it’s all okay, you think, what in God’s name did I do to deserve it? All of my life I’ve been searching for hidden treasure, fortunes outside of myself. But Martha, she found them in me. I’m not perfect, by any means, but... | 0 |
42 | The Silmarillion.txt | 99 | fruits of Yavanna from the Earth, which under Eru they had made. Therefore Yavanna set times for the flowering and the ripening of all things mat grew in Valinor; and at each first gathering of fruits Manw made a high feast for the praising of Eru, when all the peoples of Valinor poured forth their joy in music and son... | 1 |
95 | USS-Lincoln.txt | 68 | her thin. She craved a respite from the perpetual chaos. Yet, even as she pondered leaving, she questioned her own resolve. Could she truly walk away from him, from this life she had forged here? “Sir Calvin, resume the message.” “I’ll just leave you with this, Vivian. No matter what you do, I am so proud of you … how ... | 0 |
20 | Jane Eyre.txt | 18 | a n d r i v e n ; t h e t r u n k , s p l i t d o w n t h e c e n t e r , g a s p e d g h a s t l y . T h e c l o v e n h a l v e s w e r e n o t b r o k e n f r o m e a c h o t h e r , f o r t h e f i r m b a s e a n d s t r o n g r o o t s k e p t t h e m u n s... | 1 |
26 | Pride And Prejudice.txt | 1 | Sir Lewis de Bourgh's family. -- Do you play and sing, Miss Bennet?'' ``A little.'' ``Oh! then -- some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to -- You shall try it some day. -- Do your sisters play and sing?'' ``One of them does.'' ``Why did not you all learn? -... | 1 |
93 | The-Silver-Ladies-Do-Lunch.txt | 64 | and he feeds her chocolate. She’s devoted to him. She comes indoors at night-time and sits on the rug by the fireside.’ Lin was confused. ‘The pig?’ ‘Yes. I’m not exaggerating, Lin, he’ll have her sleeping in our bed soon.’ ‘A pig in the bed?’ Lin wasn’t listening properly – she wasn’t sure if Penny was joking. Penny w... | 0 |
35 | The Da Vinci Code.txt | 56 | only his silhouette visible. "Good evening," Langdon called up. "Sir Leigh, may I present Sophie Neveu." "An honor." Teabing moved into the light. "Thank you for having us," Sophie said, now seeing the man wore metal leg braces and used crutches. He was coming down one stair at a time. "I realize it's quite late." "It ... | 1 |
61 | Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries.txt | 99 | demanded. “Dear Emily,” he said, stretching like a cat and rubbing Shadow’s ears. “How was your day?” “Delightful.” As he showed no evidence of bestirring himself, I grudgingly seated myself on the grass. “Our friend in the village was no wight, but a changeling of the courtly fae. I had to interrogate the creature wit... | 0 |
96 | We-Could-Be-So Good.txt | 91 | bothered by it. Most of his friends were in constant conflict with their fathers, and not having one in the picture seemed to be a net gain. It hadn’t ever occurred to Andy that his father might want more to do with him. It’s too late for that, isn’t it? Andy’s sure that he ought to think so, that if his father really ... | 0 |
73 | Kika-Hatzopoulou-Threads-That-Bi.txt | 49 | horus-born,” said Io. “When we arrived in Alante, the lady at immigration insisted on listing Samiya as asclepies-born and not horus-born. Told us it’d help her land a job. They do the same thing, she said, but Alantians like their own word better.” Io wanted to keep this conversation going but was unsure what the righ... | 0 |
52 | A-Living-Remedy.txt | 84 | her why we had never talked about her cancer. She and I talked about most everything else, after all. I don’t know what I expected her to say. Perhaps it wasn’t fair of me to ask, even after a year. My mother was rarely cold and never aloof, so I knew it was something else that made her instantly withdraw, her expressi... | 0 |
73 | Kika-Hatzopoulou-Threads-That-Bi.txt | 93 | growing louder, as the people in the courtyard celebrated. She wondered, momentarily, if Thais was among the crowd, bleary-eyed and ecstatic at the impossibility of her dreams coming true. Saint-Yves had just won the elections. * * * Io heaved under Bianca’s weight, her back and neck drenched with sweat. They had woken... | 0 |
61 | Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries.txt | 84 | in the comfortable way she said it that made me feel easier. I split the log in only two strokes. I managed to hit one of the cracks in the next piece, and it divided with a single blow. Margret clapped. “Well done!” Lilja exclaimed, beaming as if I’d completed a marathon. In truth, I did feel rather proud of myself. I... | 0 |
91 | The-One.txt | 50 | her face. “You never had any intention of that, did you?” She purses her lips together. “Brody wasn’t ever going to leave me alone. He would’ve ruined our lives.” Ethan recalls the look in Carr’s eyes in his final moments. Sloane screaming at Ethan to shoot. Carr’s final words as he swung the pistol toward Ethan, befor... | 0 |
86 | Tessa-Bailey-Unfortunately-Yours.txt | 52 | diner. Her ex-fiancé’s Instagram. She hesitated briefly before tapping enter—and then there he was in all his suited, boyish charm. Her stomach turned sour at the memory of him calmly asking for her engagement ring back. He’d been even calmer while explaining that while he might love her, he couldn’t let their relation... | 0 |
80 | Rachel-Lynn-Solomon-Business-or-Pleasure.txt | 20 | red hair, do you think he blushes everywhere? chapter fifteen DENVER, CO Finn with you? Just got a call from con staff and he was supposed to check in twenty minutes ago. Not picking up his phone, either. I frown down at the text from Joe Kowalczyk, Finn’s manager. I’m in the hotel lobby, waiting for Finn to come downs... | 0 |
70 | Kalynn-Bayron-Youre-Not-Supposed.txt | 92 | deep condition, then detangle it. I’m sans hair dryer in the summer months, so I pack on a bunch of leave-in and let it air-dry. I feel like a brand-new person as I swap places with Bezi and Paige so they can wash up. Soon as we’re all done, I make a beeline to the edge of Mirror Lake. I lead Bezi and Paige all the way... | 0 |
39 | The Mysteries of Udolpho.txt | 75 | muleteer to stop. St. Aubert bade him proceed as fast as possible; but either Michael, or his mules were obstinate, for they did not quit the old pace. Horses' feet were now heard; a man rode up to the carriage, still ordering the driver to stop; and St. Aubert, who could no longer doubt his purpose, was with difficult... | 1 |
61 | Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries.txt | 79 | and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2023 by Heather Fawcett All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a divis... | 0 |
68 | I-Have-Some-Questions-for-You.txt | 58 | I wanted to scream at him. One was the fact that he clearly had put Robbie ahead of Omar. Another was that he didn’t even seem concerned about justice for Thalia, about the fact that maybe she wasn’t resting in peace, and maybe the person who did this had gone on to hurt more people. Instead of screaming, I tucked a bo... | 0 |
30 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles.txt | 92 | down, sir, please!" "Very well, then, I will--on one condition. Having brought you here to this out-of-the-way place, I feel myself responsible for your safe-conduct home, whatever you may yourself feel about it. As to your getting to Trantridge without assistance, it is quite impossible; for, to tell the truth, dear, ... | 1 |
38 | The Invisible Man- A Grotesque Romance.txt | 71 | the table to Wadgers, who acted as goal-keeper for the offensive, so to speak, and then stepped forward as Jaffers and the stranger swayed and staggered towards him, clutching and hitting in. A chair stood in the way, and went aside with a crash as they came down together. "Get the feet," said Jaffers between his teeth... | 1 |
55 | Blowback.txt | 19 | jobs in Washington because I was more interested in sitting in secure briefing rooms, digging into intelligence gathered overseas by U.S. spies, than sitting in classrooms. I trained my strengths—and anxieties—toward supporting national leaders, from preparing research memos at the White House and Pentagon to briefing ... | 0 |
89 | The-Last-Sinner.txt | 18 | as I understand it, this whole area”—she motioned to the area where paths wound through the trees—“was gifted to the church, the archdiocese, I think, but she specifically wanted it to be attached to Our Lady, which makes sense.” “Who gifted it? Beverly?” “No, no, Marjorie, she was a widow, Beverly’s mother-in-law.” He... | 0 |
10 | Dune.txt | 69 | He leaped upward, planting his feet against that wall, leaning out against the clinging barbs. This was the true instant of the testing: if he had planted the hooks correctly at the leading edge of a ring segment, opening the segment, the worm would not roll down and crush him. The worm slowed. It glided across the thu... | 1 |
27 | Silas Marner.txt | 54 | the sake of it, but he can't get the easygoing butcher to fight. Mr. Snell ends this pig-headed quarrel and shifts the topic to the Lammeter family, who owned the cow. He calls on the parish-clerk Mr. Macey, who sparks another quarrel with his new deputy Mr. Tookey. In this ongoing dispute, not only do Macey and Tookey... | 1 |
11 | Emma.txt | 27 | "and they cannot forgive me." He shook his head; but there was a smile of indulgence with it, and he only said, "I shall not scold you. I leave you to your own reflections." "Can you trust me with such flatterers?--Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?" "Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.--If one lea... | 1 |
55 | Blowback.txt | 23 | peering at above were thousands of years old. When I look at art, I don’t want to be thinking about the artist, but it’s not the same way with nature. Mysticism is for people who can’t make sense of the world. I spent two years directly coming to terms with my own impermanence and finally accepted it. The conclusion ca... | 0 |
12 | Fahrenheit 451.txt | 84 | rushing by so quickly they had to stretch the advertising out so it would last." "I didn't know that!" Montag laughed abruptly. "Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning." He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. "And if you look"-sh... | 1 |
12 | Fahrenheit 451.txt | 83 | moment, and then Montag talked about the weather, and then the old man responded with a pale voice. It was a strange quiet meeting. The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.... | 1 |
28 | THE SCARLET LETTER.txt | 46 | (n) parenthood, source, palliate: (v) mitigate, assuage, sitting room, front room, authorship, origin, beginning, alleviate, mollify, appease, allay, livingroom, room to meet guests, relationship, parentage, genesis, facilitate, relieve; (n, v) extenuate; parlours, parlors, salon, reception provenance, consanguinity, f... | 1 |
32 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.txt | 57 | time heard of this thing succeeding but never of its failing before. It did not occur to him that he had tried it several times before, himself, but could never find the hiding-places afterward. He puzzled over the matter some time, and finally decided that some witch had interfered and broken the charm. He thought he ... | 1 |
16 | Great Expectations.txt | 74 | of buttered toast, that I could scarcely see him over it as it simmered on an iron stand hooked on to the top-bar; while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and repeatedly expressed his desire to participate in the entertainment. The flag had been struck,... | 1 |
85 | Talia-Hibbert-Highly-Suspicious.txt | 56 | have an actual conversation with her, or at least say thank you after she ditched her shift at McDonald’s to take me to the hospital. But I am in a foul mood because my left wrist is fractured (like, it’s in a cast! For six to eight weeks! Positive thinking hasn’t helped at all!) and that is not an item on my Steps to ... | 0 |
88 | The-Housekeepers.txt | 6 | Bone was always a very pragmatic sort of lady. She assessed trades coolly, dispassionately: she weighed them on the scales and picked the most lucrative ones every time. But there was one business she wouldn’t touch. She pictured Danny, the gleam of his curls. Felt her flesh crawling. “Sue’s sick,” she said. The boy fr... | 0 |
26 | Pride And Prejudice.txt | 8 | VI (6) THE ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the good will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted ... | 1 |
30 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles.txt | 59 | the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour. To cheer themselves as well as they could, they made an artificial morning with the lantern, some bread and butter, and their own conversation, the real morning being far from come. Abraham, as he more fully awoke (for he had moved in ... | 1 |
53 | After Death.txt | 30 | room eases inward, admitting a narrow blade of light from the corridor. No one enters. After three seconds, the door opens wider. The hallway appears deserted. Perhaps the door wasn’t tightly closed and has swung open of its own weight. No. Now it swings shut and remains closed. Durand Calaphas is not a superstitious m... | 0 |
78 | Pineapple Street.txt | 49 | that at all. You remember how dweeby he was.” I heard myself, heard how ridiculous that sounded. But it was true that I couldn’t wrap my head around the possibility. The idea of you sleeping with Thalia was already more than I’d wanted to consider. Fran said, “I know you were attached to him. I don’t mean in an inappro... | 0 |
30 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles.txt | 54 | not to know how the season was advancing; that the days had lengthened, that Lady-Day was at hand, and would soon be followed by Old Lady-Day, the end of her term here. But before the quarter-day had quite come something happened which made Tess think of far different matters. She was at her lodging as usual one evenin... | 1 |
11 | Emma.txt | 52 | the commendation that could be requisite, and always putting forward to prevent Harriet's being obliged to say a word. This she had been prepared for when she entered the house; but meant, having once talked him handsomely over, to be no farther incommoded by any troublesome topic, and to wander at large amongst all th... | 1 |
89 | The-Last-Sinner.txt | 90 | SpongeBob, a flapper, and a variety of Disney princesses. Her favorite was a toddler bumble bee who was more preoccupied with her wings than the candy. As she finally turned off the light for the night, she smiled and patted her abdomen. Not this year, and probably not next, but in two years, watch out. There would be ... | 0 |
32 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.txt | 53 | remember, Huck, 'bout me saying that?" "Yes, that's so," said Huck. "That was the --------------------------------------------------------- -166- day after I lost a white alley. No, 'twas the day before." "There -- I told you so," said Tom. "Huck recollects it." "I bleeve I could smoke this pipe all day," said Joe. "I ... | 1 |
23 | Moby Dick; Or, The Whale.txt | 33 | to the helmsman. For during the violence of the gale, he had only steered according to its vicissitudes. But as he was now bringing the ship as near her course as possible, watching the compass meanwhile, lo! a good sign! the wind seemed coming round astern; aye! the foul breeze became fair! Instantly the yards were sq... | 1 |
59 | Costanza-Casati-Clytemnestra.txt | 62 | believe that Helen wasn’t his child. He saw nothing of himself in her as she grew to become passionate about music and dancing and cried when she saw a wounded soldier. But Clytemnestra knows Helen is her sister. She knows that even though as a child Helen seemed frail and gentle, her will is as strong as Clytemnestra’... | 0 |
57 | Cold People.txt | 45 | thinly veiled disgust, as if to say this thing couldn’t be the future of mankind. In contrast, Yotam had remarked with admiration: ‘It’s looking at us. It knows we’re here.’ It was born with four jointed legs arranged two on each side of the thorax, from which a clearly human torso rose, perfect in form. Nimbly the inf... | 0 |
94 | Titanium-Noir.txt | 69 | mind.” “You’d be amazed how often it does.” Bill leads the way down another little avenue of trees: Autumn Higan cherry, but I’m at least a week too late for the blossom. The bark is slick and black on either side of the path. “You should have seen them in October, Cal.” “I’m sure it was lovely.” And then, at last: “I ... | 0 |
81 | Riley-Sager-The-Only-One-Left.txt | 67 | say seventy-five, knowing I could be off by at least ten years in either direction. A pair of cat’s-eye glasses hangs from a chain around the woman’s neck. She brings them to her eyes and peers at me for a breath of a second—an instant appraisal. “Miss McDeere,” she finally says. “Welcome.” “Thank you,” I say, even tho... | 0 |
35 | The Da Vinci Code.txt | 11 | He smiled. "Not your first visit to Rosslyn, I see." 292 The code, Langdon thought. He had forgotten that little bit of lore. Among Rosslyn's numerous mysteries was a vaulted archway from which hundreds of stone blocks protruded, jutting down to form a bizarre multifaceted surface. Each block was carved with a symbol, ... | 1 |
86 | Tessa-Bailey-Unfortunately-Yours.txt | 74 | asking my mother for money. I asked her to release my trust fund and I was denied.” His brows knit together as he processed that. “Trust fund. Shouldn’t that be released when you become a legal adult?” “In most cases, yes, but my father made certain . . . requirements.” “Such as?” Was she really going to tell him this?... | 0 |
32 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.txt | 64 | its claims; the children tried to pay attention, for it was dreadful to think of sitting down when time was grown to be so precious, moving, in some direction, in any direction, was at least progress and might bear fruit; but to sit down was to invite death and shorten its pursuit. At last Becky's frail limbs refused t... | 1 |
63 | Hannah Whitten - The Foxglove King-Orbit (2023).txt | 14 | where the air tasted stale and mineral, where there was nothing soft. Lore knew she was dreaming—or something like it—but it didn’t stop the kick of fear against her ribs when she saw the tomb. It looked larger than she remembered, a block of obsidian gleaming night-sky dark. Looming like a slice of the earth itself, p... | 0 |
22 | Lord of the Flies.txt | 77 | other. Bill answered. "We don't want to go in the jungle." Ralph grimaced. "He--you know--goes." "He's a hunter. They're all hunters. That's different." No one spoke for a moment, then Piggy muttered to the sand. "Meat--" The littluns sat, solemnly thinking of meat, and dribbling. Overhead the cannon boomed again and t... | 1 |
0 | 1984.txt | 48 | not certain whether his sister had been born then. Finally they had emerged into a noisy, crowded place which he had realized to be a Tube station. There were people sitting all over the stone-flagged floor, and other people, packed tightly together, were sitting on metal bunks, one above the other. Winston and his mot... | 1 |
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