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H.G. Wells · The War of the Worlds · Project Gutenberg

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Stent was giving directions in a clear, high-pitched voice. He was standing on the cylinder, which was now evidently much cooler; his face was crimson and streaming with perspiration, and so...

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Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice · Project Gutenberg

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Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother...

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