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...ving force of the wind, he quick- ened his fire by blowing, and his simple tools, pointed first with copper and then with iron, increased and varied a... ...had known the windows of all the little shops, spent hours in the vanished cinematograph theatre, and marvelled at the high-flung early Georgian house... ...ything was in its best clothes for us, and usually wearing bunting. With a cinema watching to see we took it properly. If you are a king, Firmin, and ...

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...er, she must be among the people. Sometimes she sat among the louts in the cinema: rakish-looking, unattractive louts they were. Yet she must be among... ..., incalculable. So Gudrun strolled the streets with Palmer, or went to the cinema with him. And his long, pale, rather elegant face flick- ered as he ... ...he would look up. Which he soon did. The moment he saw her, he dropped his tools and came forward, saying: ‘How do you do? I’m making the punt water-t... ...for the cartage of their coals, heavy cartage too; they must pay for their tools, for the sharpening, for the care of lamps, for the many trifling thi...

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...t see- ing him. The Kennicott garage was a shed littered with paint- cans, tools, a lawn-mower, and ancient wisps of hay. Above it was a loft which Cy... ...Mississippi she had walked the battlements with queens. But the celebrated cinema jester’s conceit of dropping toads into a soup-plate flung her into ... ...haking his head as he thought about their uselessness. He kept the loading-tools he had used as a boy: a cap- per for shot-gun shells, a mold for lead... ... broadest softest pencil in the world. There was a thing worth seeing! The tools! In his office Father had tools fascinating in 327 Sinclair Lewis th... ...t was a good dodge to volunteer “I must not touch,” when you looked at the tools on the glass shelves in Father’s office. But Uncle Miles, who was a p... ...im. At Mount Vernon he admired the paneled library and Washington’s dental tools. She knew that he would want oysters, that he would have heard of Har...

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...merged. Then I realised I was talking to the king. Addicted as I am to the cinematograph, in which the stan- dard of study furniture is particularly r... ... leaps into red dust and smoke. But these things are now to be seen on the cinema. Forthwith the men working on the road about us begin to down tools ... ...n the cinema. Forthwith the men working on the road about us begin to down tools and make for the shelter trenches, a long procession going at a stead... ... He gave his hearers the sort of stuff that is handed out so freely by the Cinema Theatres, White Slave T raffic talk, de- nunciations of “Night Hawks...

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...fluxions and Michael Angelo his marbles to save it; so they threw away the tools of their beneficent and enno- bling trades, and took up the blood-sta... ...deaths they had not seen meant no more to them than the mimic death of the cinema screen. Sometimes it was not necessary that death should be actually... ...pers, or in general intercourse, any feeling beyond the usual one that the cinema show at the front was going splendidly, and that our boys were the b... ... ready. No hot water. No welcoming hostess. Our visitor is to sleep in the toolshed, and to wash in the duckpond. NURSE GUINNESS. Now it’s all right, ... ...ridiculous. THE BURGLAR [looking up quickly]. I shall have to buy a lot of tools, lady. LADY UTTERWORD. Nonsense: you have your burgling kit. THE BURG...

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...d with the living he is getting, and the tendency of newspaper, the- atre, cinematograph show and so forth is to fill his mind with ideas of ways of l... ...informed, sceptical, and the Press, with pho- tographic illustrations, the cinema, and a score of collateral forces, are giving it precisely that spec... ...eginning to cry out, “We are being made fools of,” and to fling down their tools, and cannot you see how futile it is to dream that Mr. Asquith or som... ...ssor did it five hundred years before. He had the same resources, the same tools, the same materials; he made the same objects for the same ends. With...