The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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... minutes later the same thing happened again . This time it was a taxi - at least , it sounded like a taxi . Just ... minute or two he cleared off . As you can imagine , this second business made more of an impression , and when still a ...
... minutes later the same thing happened again . This time it was a taxi - at least , it sounded like a taxi . Just ... minute or two he cleared off . As you can imagine , this second business made more of an impression , and when still a ...
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... minute , but often they needed only a few seconds . Two minutes before the train pulled in at the platform , the game ended , with the Newfoundland a worthy winner . Unable to restrain his curiosity any longer , the fascinated onlooker ...
... minute , but often they needed only a few seconds . Two minutes before the train pulled in at the platform , the game ended , with the Newfoundland a worthy winner . Unable to restrain his curiosity any longer , the fascinated onlooker ...
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... minutes ' walk from the house that , in twenty years ' time , he would perhaps own . Whether it was that the air of his new habitat over - exhilarated him or that the beer contained an illogically greater content of alcohol than that to ...
... minutes ' walk from the house that , in twenty years ' time , he would perhaps own . Whether it was that the air of his new habitat over - exhilarated him or that the beer contained an illogically greater content of alcohol than that to ...
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