“When I closed my eyes, the scent of the wind wafted up towards me.”
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“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
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“My sister, Greta, and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying.”
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“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.”
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“The messenger said I was to come at once.”
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“When the poet‘s mother wondered where the poet had been conceived, there were only three possibilities to consider: a park bench one night, the apartment of a friend of the poet‘s father one afternoon, a romantic spot outside Prague late one morning.”
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“My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais.”
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“From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester‘s Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down.”
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“There was only one occupant if the coach, a gentleman who sprawled very much at his ease, with his legs stretched out before him, and his hands dug deep in the capacious pockets of his greatcoat.”
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“Betty was determined to keep the lid on the cauldron for as long as possible, which might just - the way she‘d been feeling lately - mean for ever.”
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