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[001] l name) would suddenly say that the work had to go on _____ ad0. George heard the heavy wooden door bang in the
[002] wishing that for weeks. But there's nothing we can do _____ the job's Finished and the plane arrives to fly us ou
[003] le to hurry Chandra. He just went on smoking his pipe _____ he was ready to answer. What people?' he asked at las
[004] long line of mountains, which ran from north to south _____ they disappeared into the Shadow Land. One day, he kn
[005] als which we can call horses, First west, then south, _____ Trilorne was quite close to the horizon and it was b
[006] adow Land just continued round the curve of the world _____ it met the same Wall again on the other side. But the
[007] e went bravely on, watching the land in front of him, _____ he could see the place where his journey had started,
[008] , which suited Leon, who wanted only to be left alone _____ he felt ready to sleep. In the quietness of the night
[009] s like only a few weeks because we were deep-sleeping _____ the alarms woke us engineers. The ship is flown by au
[010] imbing a hundred metres, then two, higher and higher, _____ it disappeared into the clouds above. Huge drops of w
[011] In a few days the ship would be ready to leave. Up _____ the last minute, Lora had hoped that they would fail.
[012] r way to a new world, sleeping in suspended animation _____ the day of their arrival. What were they dreaming in
[013] on and on, changing from one moving belt to another, _____ at last Leon let go and they came to a stop beside o
[014] at up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City _____ the afternoon. (George goes to sleep at a bank from
[015] on. (George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o'clock _____ four o'clock from Monday to Friday. On Saturday they
[016] other round and round, and you shout at each other - _____ the tent falls down. And there you are! You stand an
[017] ng to drink. This brings back your interest in life _____ it is time to go to bed. There you dream that a very
[018] I looked round, and saw the boots. Why did Harris wait _____ I had closed the suitcase? George laughed quietly.
[019] ke me then?' he asked. 'Now we won't be on the water _____ after twelve o'clock.' Then we remembered. We looked
[020] not move in case he fell over. He had to stay there _____ I could catch 8 his legs and pull him back. And that
[021] pretty. After that, the river is not very interesting _____ you get to Boveney. George and I were towing the boa
[022] ittle hotel with roses round the door.' So we went on _____ we came to another hotel. That was a very nice one,
[023] too badly. After that, I took the tin away. I beat it _____ I was exhausted and miserable. Then Harris took it.
[024] sted and miserable. Then Harris took it. We beat it _____ it was long and thin. We beat it
[025] it was long and thin. We beat it _____ it was square. We hit it with the wood
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[001] nd interesting reports about the weather. The weather _____ for that day said, 'Rain, cold, wet to fine, some t
[002] book. In fact, I knew the man who wrote the sharpest _____ of them all. So did you, of course. You remember John
[003] n again. I wouldn't accept it,' Rachael said. And I'd _____ the person who gave it to me to the police.' Rick ma
[004] y ten hours until that big piece of news, my special _____ . Tell your friends to watch! It's something that will
[005] ke Luba Luft, singing Mozart at the opera house. The _____ on Roy Baty described him as a rough, cold android. H
[006] what we would all like to be able to do, to read the _____ of our own death. Did you find it interesting?' 'Yes
[007] ld man. 'Abel! Abel Tusk!' said Brat, remembering the _____ he had read about Patrick's death. 'Am I glad to see
[008] shipments of grain during those months. Each computer _____ gave details of date and place of departure, names o
[009] our time, Mrs Phillips. We'll mail you4 a copy of the _____ when we complete it.' As I said goodbye, I asked who
[010] rry returned with an old newspaper. Beverley read the _____ aloud: 'Early on Wednesday morning the body of a you
[011] ust be the phone box the unknown person had used to _____ Anne's death. As he bent over the book, he knew he wa
[012] out Anne's life, returned from his investigations to _____ to Bell. He was rather pleased with himself for find
[013] year ago. Bell was listening as Walters finished his _____ , but he was busy and didn't have time to worry abou
[014] By bicycle? With someone? According to the medical _____ , she had been dead for about ten hours by the time5
[015] le near him. He realized that she must have read the _____ of Anne's death. The inquest on Anne had been arrange
[016] cribe finding the body. The police doctor said in his _____ that the woman had probably died between 7. 00 and.
[017] s she heard him drive away, her head was full of the _____ she had read in the local newspaper, the
[018] she had read in the local newspaper, the _____ of Anne's death. She felt sure Charles had read it t
[019] when and why. Just then Walters came into the room to _____ to Bell. 'This is what Jackson did earlier this eveni
[020] ctor!). It was only later, when I read the newspaper _____ , that I realized I had been in the house while Anne
[021] ' 'Thank you, Doctor.' 'Don't thank me. I'll have to _____ this.' 'I wish you wouldn't. I'm... I'm under a psych
[022] finished reading the newspaper, and I took it. The _____ was just a few lines on the back page. It said that M
[023] d hate to go back to Mr Kruger,' he said sharply, 'to _____ that you...' Lemick smiled. '
[024] that you...' Lemick smiled. ' _____ to whoever you like,' he interrupted. 'Our orders com
[025] flex, sir,' the doctor replied. He looked down at the _____ on Biko. 'The tests performed by Dr Hersch also show.
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[001] d come to spend the day with her, because Godfrey was _____ on business and she would perhaps be lonely without h
[002] ith it?' Gladly,' replied the lama, carefully putting _____ his little notebook. Your Mark 5 Computer can do all
[003] that?' The view from the monastery took one's breath _____ at First, but in time one gets used to anything. Aft
[004] en what do they expect us to do?' said George. All go _____ and kill ourselves?' There's no need for that. When t
[005] them down the steep road. And don't think I'm running _____ because I'm afraid. I'm just sorry for those poor o
[006] ng sheets of paper as the younger lamas carried them _____ from the printers and put them into the great books.
[007] little silver cross. In two hours it would carry them _____ , back to the real, sensible world. It was a very co
[008] still almost completely unknown. Just a stone's throw _____ from the enclosed Plato City was a great, silent empt
[009] to the great lands of the East. To the west, not far _____ , was the sea, and sometimes Shervane could hear the t
[010] n. Come - I have something to show you.' They turned _____ from their route east, and for several hours rode onc
[011] metal or stone, and when he shouted, his voffice died _____ at once and there was no echo at all. My people belie
[012] of all was the silence: every word, every sound died _____ with unnatural quickness. Brayldon took out some too
[013] ll is made of anything known to our science.' He put _____ his useless cutting tools and took out a theodolite. I
[014] least I can Find out how high it is!' When they rode _____ and looked back for their last view of the Wall, Sher
[015] took the road across the mountains again, he had been _____ for two years and he was full of happiness to be goin
[016] is hand on Shervane's shoulder, then turned his head _____ , unable to speak. And presently Shervane learned that
[017] ream would soon become real. Standing two kilometres _____ , so that he could see the whole stairway, he remember
[018] ult. The planet is more than Five hundred light-years _____ , and it is hard to make contact. However, we believe
[019] t'll help to pass the time.' Five hundred light-years _____ , the Thaarns talked hurriedly among themselves. Somet
[020] walked slowly on towards her. He stopped a few metres _____ from her and smiled. Hello,' he said. I was just taki
[021] er and their Fingers touched, but she pulled her hand _____ at once. It's late,' she said, almost angrily. I must
[022] ust go home. Goodbye.' She turned and walked quickly _____ , leaving Leon staring after her, puzzled and a little
[023] sking to see the Mayor. Lora's younger sister hurried _____ to fetch him, and Leon sat tiredly down in a chair b
[024] rgotten for ever in years to come. As the music died _____ into the darkness, the people of Thalassa, avoiding w
[025] important. He was here; Earth and the stars were far _____ . And so also was tomorrow, with whatever unhappiness
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[001] frey, although I haven't been a good father to you so _____ , I want to do my best for you now. And my wife will b
[002] r Wagner could hear the sounds of the New York streets _____ below his office, but he felt that he was in a diere
[003] it again, unable to think of anything to say. In the _____ corner of the room, one of the baby animals began to
[004] ins to the great lands of the East. To the west, not _____ away, was the sea, and sometimes Shervane could hear
[005] thunder of the waves from the house. No one knew how _____ the sea reached. Ships had sailed northward but had
[006] burning heat and terrible cold. In every country, the _____ north was destroyed by the Fire of Trilorne, and in t
[007] rth was destroyed by the Fire of Trilorne, and in the _____ south lay the endless, grey Shadow Land, where Trilor
[008] a steep hill where Sherval stopped and pointed to the _____ south. It is not easy to see,' he said quietly. My fa
[009] e Wall, which Brayldon knew about but had never seen. _____ to the south of every country, rising huge and black
[010] lived before we were born. If we could remember that _____ back, we would know the answers to your questions.'
[011] the last and highest part of the road, he could see, _____ below in the valley, the line of shadow that was his
[012] live and farm in the Shadow Land. People could go as _____ southward as they wanted, because there was no Wall
[013] now, he thought, but still he went on. Then he saw, _____ ahead of him, a second light appearing in the sky. Be
[014] ane, falling in just the same slow, gentle way on the _____ side of the Wall. But that, he realized, was a foolis
[015] lieve we can do it, but there is another problem. So _____ , we have been quite unable to communicate with these
[016] from work, he took long walks with Lora in the Fields _____ from the village, where only machines worked on the l
[017] seem important. He was here; Earth and the stars were _____ away. And so also was tomorrow, with whatever unhappi
[018] world, waiting to bring human life to a young planet _____ away in space. And Lora knew that Leon was showing he
[019] the warm summer sun. We could go somewhere peaceful, _____ away from other people. Harris said that he thought t
[020] taken it away,' we said. George had towed the boat as _____ as Staines, and we had towed it from there. It seem
[021] that the picture was of Anningly Hall, which was not _____ from where he had grown up. Have you any explanation
[022] ? Listen to me. It's only six o'clock. Yarmouth's not _____ , and we've enough money to cross the sea - things li
[023] and lonely, and a cold north wind blew at his back. _____ ahead of him he could see the lights of the village, b
[024] ery few metres. When he looked behind him to see how _____ he had come, he saw that he might have a companion on
[025] ind me doesn't look like that - and he seems to be as _____ away as when I First saw him. I shall get my dinner b
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[001] ice. But I got you, Nancy, and yet I've been wanting _____ dierent all the time. Perhaps from now on I'll be abl
[002] g to enjoy most of the good things in life. That was _____ to be thankful for, anyway. They were certainly crazy
[003] Listen, George,' said Chuck seriously. I've learned _____ that means trouble.' What's wrong? Isn't the computer
[004] e didn't know why. It's the craziest thing' Tell me _____ new,' said George crossly. but old Sam's just told me
[005] ked out on a job. Anyway, they might start to suspect _____ . No, I'll hold on and take what comes.' I still don'
[006] e Moon for almost two weeks before he discovered that _____ was wrong. At First he just had a kind of strange fee
[007] nd stories he sent back to Earth were accurate. But _____ was wrong somewhere, and he was going to Find out wha
[008] ome questions. I don't like it either, because here's _____ that you probably don't know. There were three nervou
[009] they were going outside the city. Chandra had found _____ . As the Moon car drove along the rough road from the
[010] months. But there is a better reason. Come - I have _____ to show you.' They turned away from their route east
[011] ther hard nor soft, and was cold - too cold, even for _____ in a land untouched by the sun. Strangest of all was
[012] last Grayle spoke. I always knew you would want to do _____ like this one day, Shervane. But how much will it cos
[013] ,' said Grayle quietly. If the Wall was built to keep _____ from our world, it will still be impassable from the
[014] old man smiled a little. Why should one be afraid of _____ just because it is strange? The Wall is wonderful, ye
[015] world? Then, suddenly, he was there, staring out at _____ he did not at First understand. Then he realized that
[016] lly forward, keeping his back to Trilorne. There was _____ wrong: it was growing darker with every footstep he t
[017] s on for ever. It is diicult for our minds to imagine _____ that has no end. There have been many answers given t
[018] gle continuous piece of paper - a one-sided surface - _____ that at First sight seems quite impossible.' Yes,' s
[019] terrible!' said the Great Scientist. Surely there is _____ we can do!' Yes, Your Highness, but it will be extrem
[020] away, the Thaarns talked hurriedly among themselves. _____ seemed to be wrong, but they could not decide exactly
[021] ' he said. I've spent years trying to make rockets do _____ useful, and they tell me I'm only allowed to make roc
[022] hrough the tunnel. On the third day he felt there was _____ he ought to remember, but then Brenda came back to h
[023] ought Lora, like a great silver egg, waiting to bring _____ new and strange into the peaceful world of Thalassa.
[024] ip shield, you see, as the old one was destroyed when _____ big hit us out in space.' And you think you can make
[025] ?' Lora did not answer, and seemed to be thinking of _____ else. Presently she said, a little sadly: And you lef
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[001] ds they enjoyed the luxury of coee brought up by room _____ . Then Rachael sat in the bath and sang. You made a g
[002] r a toad I suggest you also buy a small pool. And our _____ team will check the animal regularly, if you like. To
[003] chool began on that first day, there had been a short _____ . Afterwards, the white man in the white suit, who was
[004] his, she might. But this was not enough. Just loyal _____ was not enough either. Anyone would give that, for mo
[005] s read the words painted on the door: LESOTHO POSTAL _____ . Woods sighed with relief. 'What are you doing on foo
[006] ill find my school is built upon an ideal an ideal of _____ and trust. Many of the boys come from the very best f
[007] up as Dr Fagan walked quickly into the hall, and the _____ began. After a reading and a prayer, the Doctor look
[008] ted with scarcely controlled impatience for the daily _____ in the chapel. This was the only moment in the day wh
[009] y rich. All this time people from the British Secret _____ were watching carefully to see if the man from Russ
[010] ' replied Ogilvie. 'If he thought the British Secret _____ was still following him after thirty years, he might
[011] at he was still being watched by the British Secret _____ . And I had to do what Ogilvie said, even if I disagre
[012] ice to arrest her, or at least dismissed her from his _____ . Why had he asked me to keep the attack a secret? Ho
[013] e ambitious plan. Once I heard him speak at a church _____ in Morton, and although he was an excellent speaker,
[014] parations for leaving England and going abroad in the _____ of God. Happy, that is, except for one little human
[015] ter way of using your energy and intelligence in the _____ of God.' 'St John, I have so many reasons for happin
[016] he continued. 'Trust in Him, Jane. Marry me, for the _____ of God.' 'I can't do it, St John, I'm not strong enou
[017] at the end of his appointment. So he would get cheap _____ for five years. His appointment was as Station office
[018] reception desk, but there was a sign: 'Ring bell for _____ '. She rang it. After a moment a door opened and a wom
[019] o about stopping?' I asked. 'Let's stop at the next _____ station,' she said. 'I need to get out of the car, to
[020] she said. 'I need to get out of the car, too.' At the _____ station, I first filled the car with petrol, then wen
[021] have a cup of coee first.' Anna turned into the next _____ area where they had to queue for a fairly awful cup o
[022] P'. There was a Paula, the number of a pizza delivery _____ and... Pete. There were two numbers listed for him, a
[023] ned this idea. I believed that I had done a wonderful _____ to Marian. At the Hall she took off the swimsuit and
[024] rvants who cried about love. They came to the morning _____ with red eyes. But I thought Marian was dierent. I re
[025] going to be another hot day. I soon felt tired of the _____ and became bored with the priest. I thought about the
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[001] y cut them up and put them into great books. One more _____ , thank God, and it would be Finished. George didn't k
[002] the job four days from now, and the plane calls in a _____ . OK - all we have to do is to Find a little problem du
[003] cination, though it was easy to explain it. Only last _____ he'd been reading a story about the end of the world.
[004] ever unhappiness it would bring... By the end of the _____ the engineers had built a strong metal pyramid on lan
[005] if you are going for a month or two - but not for a _____ . I know what it is like... You start out on Monday a
[006] please tell me. Then I can arrange to go and spend a _____ with my mother.' Uncle Podger got up and tried again
[007] told Mr and Mrs Betts that he would stay for another _____ . If he left suddenly, they would surely guess the rea
[008] should he be afraid of it? He decided to stay another _____ as he had arranged. As the days passed, Thomson liste
[009] alchemist. And I don't want to meet him for the next _____ or two. Now, shall we go?' What have you been doing
[010] was a very clever man. One evening, later in the same _____ , Mr Edward Dunning was returning from the British Mus
[011] g he died? The strange thing is that during the last _____ of his life all his worries seemed to disappear, and h
[012] rswell remained at Luord Abbey. At last, less than a _____ before July 23rd, Dunning received a telegram from hi
[013] red what Harrington had said about his brother's last _____ . At last the boat train arrived and he saw his friend
[014] lf, and I'm going to Burnstow on the east coast for a _____ or two to improve my game.' Professor Parkins was a
[015] ace of the first, but there was worse news to come. A _____ after the child was born, the young mother fell ill,
[016] born, the young mother fell ill, and before another _____ had passed, she was dead. For a man whose profession
[017] erine went with Mrs Penniman to see her cousins every _____ . The little Almonds were now growing up; the boys ha
[018] Townsend is coming to the house four or five times a _____ ? I am away all day, and I see nothing.' Mrs Pennima
[019] y me tomorrow?' he asked, suddenly. Tomorrow?' Next _____ , then any time in the next month.' Isn't it better to
[020] s.' I have chosen you,' she said. Then marry me next _____ !' She stood staring at him. Isn't there any other way
[021] quite sure what he would do with it. R For about a _____ , life in Washington Square continued much as before,
[022] is less angry.' The young man was very annoyed. Last _____ you advised me to marry immediately!' he said. Cathe
[023] it to her aunt or her father. Doctor Sloper waited a _____ , before coming one morning into the back parlour, w
[024] omise.' A year later Doctor Sloper died after a three _____ illness. The will he had changed shortly before his
[025] re Mrs Penniman could not see that she was crying. A _____ later they were again sitting in the front parlour. C
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[001] est for you, Eppie my dear, and you too, Marner. Good _____ .' Nancy and Godfrey left the cottage and walked home
[002] sensible world. It was a very comfortable thought. _____ falls quickly in the high Himalayas and darkness was
[003] ' The call came two weeks later, in the middle of the _____ - the real Moon
[004] - the real Moon _____ . By Plato City time, it was Sunday morning. Henry? C
[005] t brought it heat and light. Shervane knew nothing of _____ , as the sun Trilorne was always high above the horizo
[006] neither, was a line of deeper darkness, black as the _____ which Shervane had never known. He stared at it for
[007] the ground and killing all his family in one terrible _____ . In a single moment of time all the land had passed t
[008] a new home here, among people of their own kind. The _____ was cool and calm, and the sky bright with unknown st
[009] until he felt ready to sleep. In the quietness of the _____ he could hear the soft whisper of the sea, and he lef
[010] is - meeting a complete stranger on a lonely beach at _____ . All day she had been unable to put the young enginee
[011] good dancer, but he had little chance to show it that _____ . Leon had been showing everyone the latest dances fro
[012] down; the music had begun. No one who was there that _____ ever forgot that moment, when the First strange and b
[013] e answer. And presently she had found it, in the warm _____ of the forest, as Leon's arms closed around her in t
[014] love burned, they were safe from the shadows of the _____ and the loneliness of the stars. To Leon, it was neve
[015] fted o and climbed up into space. Some time later the _____ sky exploded into light, as the starship's great eng
[016] with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the _____ . George always thinks he is ill, but really, there is
[017] t Chertsey. The next question was where to sleep at _____ . George and I did not want to sleep in hotels at
[018] . George and I did not want to sleep in hotels at _____ . We wanted to sleep outside. 'How beautiful,' we sa
[019] !' I can imagine it easily... At the end of the day, _____ comes and the world is peaceful and calm. Our little
[020] ut this, so we agreed that we had done enough for one _____ . Chapter 3 We decide what to take The following eve
[021] to take a tent. We can put a cover over the boat at _____ . It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and
[022] scussed the important question of where to spend the _____ . We had decided to sleep on the boat. Therefore we c
[023] we had stopped at Penton Hook. Chapter 9 Our first _____ on the boat After some time, Harris and I began to th
[024] g, George's father was travelling with a friend. One _____ they stopped at a little hotel. They spent the evenin
[025] e side of the boat. We looked down at the water. The _____ before, we had decided to get up early. We would thro
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[001] about them, in Russia as well as across America. The _____ that had developed the Nexus-6 was diicult to control
[002] d test the new androids?' Yes. I'm going to phone the _____ now and discuss the possibility of including several
[003] o many in one place. The cages were guarded by men in _____ uniforms with machine guns, and the men's eyes were w
[004] e had a job driving a truck for a false-animal repair _____ , and Mr Sloat, his boss, accepted him as a human bein
[005] He continued his flight back to the repair shop. For _____ , he turned on the radio and listened to Buster Friend
[006] s fingers over his laser gun. His first stop was the _____ where Polokov worked. It was a large, modern building
[007] an opera singer working for the San Francisco Opera _____ . She had told the
[008] . She had told the _____ she was from Germany. She must have a good voffice to
[009] there. And very lonely.' Don't the androids keep you _____ ? I heard an advertisement...' She drank a little win
[010] r she seemed to be with Roger Clint and enjoying his _____ , and Brat felt miserable. 'What's it got to do with y
[011] y went on dancing quietly, each enjoying the other's _____ . She was a lovely woman, Bee Ashby, and he loved her.
[012] ther. And I shall have time to decide between the oil _____ and the university. Father has promised to talk to Ok
[013] can take teacher training, or I can work with the oil _____ in Ughelli. I don't mind what we do. But I do want he
[014] . Then he sat down with a bottle of native whisky for _____ . It was much later, in the middle of the night, when
[015] as Ben who had suggested a job for Chike with the oil _____ at Ughelli, where Ben was the head teacher at the loc
[016] ad teacher at the local school. Ben knew that the oil _____ needed bright young men, and he also promised to get
[017] ke asked the driver to stop at the offices of the oil _____ . 'I'll only be away ten minutes,' he said. 'I want to
[018] er. Chike was training to become a manager of the oil _____ , and they had plenty of money. Aku-nna was not always
[019] that she ought to see a doctor. The doctor at the oil _____ examined Aku-nna. 'Yes, she's going to have a baby,'
[020] ed, the day he received his first cheque from the oil _____ . He remembered their escape together and tears poured
[021] medical opinion and got a job with the Eudora Grain _____ . It was Clayton Phillips, Eudora's vice-president, w
[022] I couldn't get any information from the Eudora Grain _____ when I phoned. How did Boom Boom die?' Bobby frowne
[023] investigating, of course.' I asked Grafalk about his _____ . It was the oldest and the biggest on the Great Lake
[024] Star Line?' I asked Bledsoe. 'Is that an old family _____ ?' 'No. I started it myself, eight years ago,' Bledsoe
[025] ed Mike Sheridan to drive me back to the Eudora Grain _____ . I picked up the Lynx and drove home. The next morn