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‘That would be Long Tom, Short Tom and Tom Tom,’ said Jiminy, reaching for some mugs. ‘Decent lads – triplets, as it happens. They earn their keep but, as you might say, they shared one brain out between all three of them and it wasn’t that
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“Trust to me, my boy, trust to me. I've got no wife to worm it out of me and then run out and cackle it in everybody's hearing. If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor—let him be a bachelor.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
“Sweeper gave him a long, thoughtful look. ‘Y’know,’ he said, ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation?”
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
― George Eliot: The Complete Works
“He had, however, surmised that an hour’s exercise every day was essential for a healthy appetite and proper bowel movements, and was currently sitting on a machine of his own invention.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“1. Cuckoo Song SUMER is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu-- Sing cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu: Ne swike thu naver nu; Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu! lhude] loud. awe] ewe. lhouth] loweth. sterteth] leaps. swike] cease.”
― THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE
― THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE
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