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Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. He felt that if he held up his hand he would be able to see t
Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On the third day Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department to look at the notice
Winston looked round the shabby little room above Mr Charringtons shop. Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster. The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiec
Chapter 17 - Anatole sets off Anatole went out of the room and returned a few minutes later wearing a fur coat girt with a silver belt, and a sable cap jauntily set on one side and very becoming to his handsome face. Having looked in a mirror, and st
Chapter 13 - Nikolai and Ilyn ride to Boguchrovo On the seventeenth of August Rostov and Ilyin, accompanied by Lavrushka who had just returned from captivity and by an hussar orderly, left their quarters at Yankovo, ten miles from Bogucharovo, and we
Chapter 4 - The Council of War The Council of War began to assemble at two in the afternoon in the better and roomier part of Andrey Savostyanovs hut. The men, women, and children of the large peasant family crowded into the back room across the pass
EMMA Volume Three by Jane Austen CHAPTER IV A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: Miss Woodhouseif you are at leisure
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 9 Those who have never been on the inside in the Councils of State can never realize that with really high-class Statesmen, their chief quality is not political canniness, but a big, rich, overflowing Lo
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 11 When I was a kid, one time I had an old-maid teacher that used to tell me, Buzz, you're the thickest-headed dunce in school. But I noticed that she told me this a whole lot oftener than she used to te
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 12 I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If we can do this and at the same time work up tou
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 22 December tenth was the birthday of Berzelius Windrip, though in his earlier days as a politician, before he fruitfully realized that lies sometimes get printed and unjustly remembered against you, he
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 20 The real trouble with the Jews is that they are cruel. Anybody with a knowledge of history knows how they tortured poor debtors in secret catacombs, all through the Middle Ages. Whereas the Nordic is
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 32 Dr. Lionel Adams, B.A. of Yale, Ph.D. of Chicago, Negro, had been a journalist, American consul in Africa and, at the time of Berzelius Windrip's election, professor of anthropology in Howard Universi
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 30 But worse than having to be civil to the fatuous Mr. Tasbrough was keeping his mouth shut when, toward the end of June, a newspaperman at Battington, Vermont, was suddenly arrested as editor of Vermon
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 26 The Informer composing room closed down at eleven in the evening, for the paper had to be distributed to villages forty miles away and did not issue a later city edition. Dan Wilgus, the foreman, rema
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 25 Holidays were invented by the devil, to coax people into the heresy that happiness can be won by taking thought. What was planned as a rackety day for David's first Christmas with his grandparents was
Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 3 About a year and a half before, Doctor Dohmler had some vague correspondence with an American gentleman living in Lausanne, a Mr. Devereux Warren, of the Warren family of Chicago. A meet
CHAPTER XII Mr. Knightley was to dine with themrather against the inclination of Mr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should share with him in Isabella's first day. Emma's sense of right however had decided it; and besides the consideration o
Chapter IV His mothers letter had been a torture to him, but as regards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moments hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter. The essential question was settled, and irrevocably settled, in his mind: Nev
Tender Is the Night - Book Three by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 2 Dick told Nicole an expurgated version of the catastrophe in Romein his version he had gone philanthropically to the rescue of a drunken friend. He could trust Baby Warren to hold her