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 Post subject: Page 56, sentence 5
PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:20 pm 
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Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

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In order to fulfil this, a cock was usually killed on the bridge on the day, but on one occasion a travelling Scotch pedlar or chapman was seen to approach the bridge on the fatal day an hour.

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It was how he activated the security system.
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"An investment" Mr Hunter said.

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If you read the last 3 as one continuous piece of text, it's realy funny.

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That is, as if something was going to happen.... perhaps it's only Kate coming home; I don't know.... Oh, here she is!


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'Amen to that!' Roger nodded shortly

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A similar thing happened two years later when a man called Churchill died and Granny and Grandad were extremely sombre.


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Each manor was subdivided into vills.

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She answered me in a mischievous tone, and with a slight twinkle in her eye.
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What was she going to do now?
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What I wanted to know was how to proceed against Peter Adams in this affair.
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His face was too wrinkled to still be alive, yet his dark skin was shiny and he spoke slowly, gobbling the words in his jaws before he let them out.
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In fact, they were a well known family across America.

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