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23. I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Herman Melville, Ch. 1 "Loomings" (1851)
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I kept on creeping just the same
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
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Dat truck dah is trash.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
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Because this alone is what a man who came away naked could carry out with him
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Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
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A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks?
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While these internal revolutions were going on...
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20. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.
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"There was an uneasy cessation of all things..."
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What would he do, or rather what ought he to do, in such a crisis of a lifetime?
Part II on "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chestnutt and "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E. Hopkins
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No man is brave enough to face such a situation.
Part I on Pauline E. Hopkins, "Talma Gordon" (1900) with Charles Chestnutt, "The Wife of his Youth" (1898, 1899)
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With silent lips.
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
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Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.
Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)
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It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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Notes friends tied to the doorknob
"Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye (1995)
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