Ha valaki több hetet tölthet vadászva Kelet-Afrika kimondottan oroszlános területein, és ha nem sajnálja a fáradságot, majdnem biztos, hogy alkalma lesz oroszlánt elejteni.
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Kittenberger Kálmán: Vadászkalandok Afrikában (1959)
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The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine.
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
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For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
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Persuasion by Jane Austen (1816)
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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The End of The Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
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Rain and flakes of snow were falling simultaneously on the foreign soil.
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The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare (1963)
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This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
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We found a house with a stack of daily papers on the porch a few blocks away and broke in.
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The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (1987)
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A rózsafüzér mindennapi malasztja véget ért.
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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa: A párduc (1961)
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Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)
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